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  • 1James E. Cheek is with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Robert C. Holman and Dana Haberling are with the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA. John T. Redd is with the Indian Health Service (HIS), Santa Fe, NM. Thomas W. Hennessy is with the Arctic Investigations Program, NCEZID, CDC, Anchorage, AK.

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