Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak science

Press release announcing publication of the research in Nature, a referreed journal. While the paper has been peer-reviewed before publication, the research also needs to be verified by other scientists. See also the BBC story here. Pam
Public release date: 22-Mar-2006
http://www.eurekalert.org/
Contact: Yoshihiro Kawaoka

608-265-4925
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Although more than 100 people have been infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus, mostly from close contact with infected poultry, the fact that the virus does not spread easily from its pioneering human hosts to other humans has been a biomedical puzzle.
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This is a listing of people in our region or Villages who are the immediate contacts for information or to relay questions. Please keep in mind that many of them are full-time employees with their own work to do. Nevertheless they are willing to help as much as they can.

Governmental employees may refer you first to their official agency speakers or to their agency webpages for information (see the category info sources). [Although special appropriation of federal funds has been directed to each state for use in H5N1 bird monitoring, it isn’t yet being used for local offices or extra personnel out here.]

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Pam
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I had to convert the government’s version into a format that we could use locally, in MS Word 97 format, as a table using standrd fonts. I stripped out the macros and other gew-gaws.

The copy is available from here .

This could be used as a starting point for localizing the checklist. Please evaluate this checklist. How can it be improved?

This is a great set of questions to start with in each village, which applies to other activities, not just schools. If people prepare a set of questions to ask of their communities, please share with the rest of us here.

Read the rest of the article here (because of copyright restrictions, entire copyrighted materials cannot be posted elsewhere on the Internet)–
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Wednesday, March 22, 2006; 7:48 AM

WASHINGTON — The nation’s schools, recognized incubators of respiratory diseases among children, are being told to plan for the possibility of an outbreak of bird flu.

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