What is the rare virus that Gene Hackman's wife died from?

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What is the rare virus that Gene Hackman's wife died from?

Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease around a week after his wife Betsy Arakawa died of a rare infectious disease at their home, a pathologist has said. But what do we know about the rare virus?

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