THE 10 MOST COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT HANTAVIRUS

Darwin Palmer is the chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and for the past 25 years has been invo lved in a number of the ''special'' infections with which the area is plagued (the most bubonic plague in the nation as well as high rates o f such more mundane illnesses as shigellosis, tuberculosis, and pneumo coccal pneumonia). He has worked at this medical center and the Vetera ns Affairs Medical Center since finishing New York University (M.D.) a nd the University of Colorado (residency, ID fellowship) and notes tha t the mix of Anglo, Hispanic, and American Indian populations makes Ne w Mexico an interesting place in which to live and practice.