The Navajo Nation has discovered an outbreak of syphilis in the off-reservation community of Gallup, New Mexico.
The tribe's Social Hygiene Branch has been screening people in Gallup after noticing the outbreak in 2001. Gallup has the most syphilis cases among all test sites on and off the reservation.
The branch has tested 22,000 people on and around the reservation within the last year. Several agencies and groups are helping out.
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Gallup at core of Navajo syphilis surge
(The Gallup Independent 4/12)
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Syphilis outbreak develops near Navajo Nation
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
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