Deadly disease rears its head again
A researcher from the University of New Mexico, shown in this 1996 photo, weighs a mouse caught in traps near Placitas during a study of hantavirus. Courtesy Photo

By Vida Volkert
Staff writer

GALLUP — The New Mexico Department of Health announced Wednesday that a 59-year old woman from McKinley County has been diagnosed with hantavirus and is in critical condition at University Hospital in Albuquerque.

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