Infectious disease nothing new to Indian Country, says health director

Michael Bird, Kewa Pueblo, is the public health program director for the Indian Health Council. Michael Bird acknowledges the history tries have with pandemics at the hands of immigrants and later the U.S. government. “We’ve been dealing with infectious diseases from day one once Europeans set foot on this homeland.”

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