New Mexico agency reports 2 more hantavirus cases

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – The state Department of Health reports two additional confirmed cases of hantavirus, both from McKinley County in northwestern New Mexico.
Hantavirus infection is a deadly disease transmitted by infected rodents through urine, droppings or saliva.
The department says the additional cases involving a 59-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman who are hospitalized are the seventh and eighth cases in in New Mexico in 2016.
There have been four New Mexico fatalities from han