
The search for answers on hantavirus
It doesn't kill its rodent hosts, but it can spread to humans and prove fatal. Canadian research could help figure out why
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Dan Bilefsky is a Montreal-based journalist who spent two decades as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, reporting from dozens of countries. He was previously a staff writer for the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. He was part of a Times team that won a George Polk Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for its investigation into the Haitian president’s assassination. He is the author of The Last Job, a true-crime thriller about a gang of geriatric thieves.

It doesn't kill its rodent hosts, but it can spread to humans and prove fatal. Canadian research could help figure out why

It doesn't kill its rodent hosts, but it can spread to humans and prove fatal. Canadian research could help figure out why

It doesn't kill its rodent hosts, but it can spread to humans and prove fatal. Canadian research could help figure out why