Healthy Homes, Healthy People on the Navajo Nation

Program Description: To reduce the incidence of the rodent-borne disease hantavirus among residents of the Navajo Nation by preventing exposure to the virus through empowering residents to repair and reinforce their homes against rodents, notably deer mice, the vector species for hantavirus.
Funding Partners:
  • Reckitt Benckiser, Inc.
Program Partners:
  • CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
  • Navajo Department of Health
  • Navajo Tribal Epidemiology Center
Program Location:
  • United States of America
Community Health
Infectious Disease