Deer mice—the rodent that mainly carries hantavirus—usually stick to rural areas out west. But “common house mice (Mus musculus), which are prevalent in urban and suburban communities, ...

Deer mice cache food, especially seeds, in holes in the ground, in tree cavities, and even in bird nests, storing up to 0.6 L (1 pt) in each location for later use. In spite of autumn fat deposition ...

Deer mice. Deer mice get their name from the color of their fur -- brown with white feet and a white belly. They are 5-8 inches long with a round body shape.

A 50-plus year old Douglas County woman was hospitalized for a confirmed second case of hantavirus this summer, Carson City ...

Carson City Health and Human Services (CCHHS) reported a second case of hantavirus this year in Douglas County. Officials say ...

Deer mice also have larger ears than house mice. Even though your mouse was a house mouse, you’ll still want to do a thorough cleanup of the areas where you found the droppings.

The deer mouse, believed to be the most common mammal in North America, has a very different take on family values than its evolutionary sibling, the oldfield mouse. Oldfield mice are monogamous ...

Deer mice infected with the virus will appear healthy and do not get sick themselves. People get infected with the virus by breathing in dust that contains the virus from rodent droppings, ...

Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...

In a study led by Naim Bautista, a postdoctoral researcher in Jay Storz’s lab at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the team took highland deer mice and their lowland cousins on a simulated ascent to ...