Navajos treated for tick disease

FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2002

Relapsing fever, a tick-borne disease, has been reported in the Four Corners area of the Navajo Nation.

More than 40 people were treated by the Indian Health Service and a New Mexico hospital, The Farmington Daily-Times reports. They were attending a traditional Navajo ceremony when they apparently contracted the disease.

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Relapsing fever cases reported in Sheep Springs (The Farmington Daily-Times 8/8)