Woman recalls caring for hantavirus patients in New Mexico decades before illness was widely known

Woman recalls caring for hantavirus patients in New Mexico decades before illness was widely known

Joyce Gibson worked as a certified nurse aid at a hospital in Gallup, New Mexico in the mid-to-late 1970s.The hospital she worked at was the Rehoboth Christian next to the Navajo Nation. Gibson says it also served as a ministry to the Navajo.She says one night while helping in a medical surgical unit, she was assigned to care for a very sick woman from the Navajo Nation."She was a very sweet person, and she was a Navajo woman. I sat with her all…