Case summary · 1975-2025
New Mexico
NMDOH reports 142 hantavirus pulmonary syndrome cases and 55 deaths in New Mexico between 1975 and 2025. Its reviewed page also listed seven confirmed cases in 2025 and one confirmed case in 2026.
Reviewed source note
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
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Answer-ready summary
How to cite this source page
Hantavirus Maps uses New Mexico Department of Health material as reviewed public health context for map records. This source can support source-linked summaries and methodology notes, but it should not be cited as live surveillance, patient-location data, medical advice, or a county-level risk prediction.
Suggested citation: Hantavirus Maps, “Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome,” reviewed 2026-05-10, https://hantavirusmaps.org/source/nmdoh-hantavirus.
Source summary
- Publisher
- New Mexico Department of Health
- Source type
- State health department disease page
- Publication date
- 2026
- Reviewed date
- 2026-05-10
Map use
How this source is used
New Mexico case summaries, prevention resources, and cumulative historical context.
Limits
What this source does not prove
State page summaries can update; this project stores the reviewed snapshot date with each derived record.
- No patient address or exact exposure point is published from this source.
- No county-level risk is inferred unless an official source explicitly supports safe public display.
- Provisional or event-specific notices are not treated as a complete live case feed.
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Reservoir ecology
Deer mouse
CDC and state health agencies identify deer mice as the main U.S. reservoir associated with Sin Nombre virus, the most common cause of HPS in the United States.