Navajo Nation warns hantavirus symptoms similar to COVID-19

A person on the Navajo Nation in McKinley County who contracted Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome was expected to move out of the intensive care unit April 28, an official with the Nation’s Department of Health said.

“Patient is doing fine,” Del Yazzie, an epidemiologist with the Navajo Epidemiology Center with the Native American health agency, said. “He’s alert and talking and [has] been doing some physical therapy.”

The most recent development this week follows an announcement about the case in an April 19 news release from the Navajo Nation.

HPS is most commonly transmitted to humans by airborne contact with...

THREE DEGREES OF SEPARATION

Church Rock, April 20

A man called the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office after his ex-girlfriend’s sister beat him up.

On April 20 at 9:30 pm McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Nocona Clark was dispatched to 409 State Highway 566 in Church Rock because a drunk man told Dispatch that he had been beaten.

According to the report filed with the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office, Clark met Alonzo Long. He stated that he was in the parking lot at Deadhorse Speedway with his girlfriend and her two cousins when one of the cousins started to beat him up.

Long said he didn’t know the name of the woman who beat him, but she was his ex-girlfriend’s...

Deidre Molly Pete

Oct. 4, 2020, 12:20 am

Aggravated DWI (Second)

A vehicle crash near the Love’s Truck Stop at 3380 W. Hwy. 66 led Gallup Police officers to the scene. The criminal complaint stated the crash victim told officers a woman driving a silver vehicle failed to stop at the stop sign near the I-40 westbound off ramp.

Then a call to Metro Dispatch identified the suspect vehicle traveling west on Highway 118 with what looked like collision damage. Patrolman Julio Yazzie was dispatched to 06E Riggs Ave. near Mentmore where he met a deputy from McKinley County Sheriff’s Office who had found and stopped the vehicle.

The driver, Deidre Pete, 33, of Gallup, did not say...

Week ending Friday, April 23, 2021

Whitest White

Painting rooftops with a new type of super-reflective white paint could help reduce the effects of global heating in buildings and curb the need for air conditioning. Researchers at Purdue University say the paint they made with barium sulphate pigment rather than conventional titanium dioxide does not absorb any UV light and reflects 98% of all sunlight. Roofs have been painted white for centuries, but traditional paint reflects only about 80-90% of sunlight and still absorbs the warming UV light. While further tests for durability are needed, the developers say the super-white paint could be on the market within two years at a price...