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  2. 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak - Wikipedia

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    [11] [14] Navajo oral tradition spoke of past outbreaks in 1918, 1933, and 1934, [26] which they attributed to excess caused by "disharmony". Every year that the disease struck had excess rain and snowfall, which led to increased rodent food supply and consequently greater rodent populations and more human-rodent interactions. [27]

  3. Native American disease and epidemics - Wikipedia

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    Europeans carried such endemic diseases when they migrated and explored the New World. Europeans often spread infectious diseases to Native Americans through trading and settlement efforts, and these could even be transmitted far from the sources and colonial settlements, including through exclusively Native American trading transactions.

  4. Navajo - Wikipedia

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    Navajo weaver with sheep Navajo Germantown Eye Dazzler Rug, Science History Institute Probably Bayeta-style Blanket with Terrace and Stepped Design, 1870–1880, 50.67.54, Brooklyn Museum Navajos came to the southwest with their own weaving traditions; however, they learned to weave cotton on vertical looms from the Pueblo peoples.

  5. Navajo medicine - Wikipedia

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    Navajo medicine covers a range of traditional ... violence and negativity that can bring disease and do harm to ... Wikipedia® is a registered trademark ...

  6. Ghost sickness - Wikipedia

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    North American people associated with ghost sickness include the Navajo and some Muscogee and Plains cultures. In the Muscogee (Creek) culture, it is believed that everyone is a part of an energy called Ibofanga. This energy supposedly results from the flow between mind, body, and spirit. Illness can result from this flow being disrupted.

  7. Sin Nombre virus - Wikipedia

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    The disease was of a new type among those caused by hantaviruses, and named "hantavirus pulmonary syndrome" (HPS). [4] [18] Other related hantaviruses have also been found to cause HPS. In 2012, an SNV-linked outbreak of HPS occurred at Yosemite National Park in California, which infected ten tourists and resulted in three fatalities. [4] [19] [20]

  8. COVID-19 pandemic in the Navajo Nation - Wikipedia

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    On June 1, the Navajo Nation reported a total of 5,479 cases and 248 deaths related to COVID-19. [54] By June 11, the Navajo Nation had the largest per capita infection rate in the United States, surpassing any individual state in the union. [5] [6] On June 18, the Navajo County jail in Holbrook, Arizona reported 3 infected inmates with the ...

  9. Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDS or MDDS), or Alper's disease, is any of a group of autosomal recessive disorders that cause a significant drop in mitochondrial DNA in affected tissues. Symptoms can be any combination of myopathic , hepatopathic , or encephalomyopathic . [ 1 ]