Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak science

This is a one-page summary graphic of the virus, historical influenza pandemics, and flyways. Nicely done, but in pdf format.

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Lorena Iñiguez. Los Angeles Times. Hippocrates describes a disease that is … The virus, they believe, is being spread by wild birds as they travel along …

Sources: American Scientist, Institute of Medicine, Lancet, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wetlands International, World Health Organization Graphics reporting by Rosie Mestel, Tom Reinken and Karen Kaplan

Today is World TB Day. Many people in our area remember the TB impacts and prevention of their childhood. Some of the lessons learned then will be useful in preparing for any new pandemic. Unfortunately, younger people do not know that history; others have forgotten it. Remember the caution not to spit? Now that it is still sub-zero temperatures, check out the funny-looking little cones of ice in the AC store parking lot. Pam

Virulent Drug-Resistant TB Strain Emerges
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Times Staff Writer
March 24, 2006 Read the rest of this entry »

This reference comes from the excellent The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2006. http://scout.wisc.edu/ The Scout Report (ISSN 1092-3861) is published every Friday of the year except the last Friday of December by the Internet Scout Project, located in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Computer Sciences. It is a refereed listing of Internet sources of science, math, and engineering information. Pam

5. The Deadly Virus: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 [pdf] Read the rest of this entry »

Karen Fluegel, former teacher at the Moravian Children’s Home and retired manager of the Moravian Book Store, recommends reading these books. They should be available at the Kuskokwim Consortium Library.

by Robert Fortuine. 1989. Publisher: University of Alaska Press. ISBN: 0912006587 (an excellent book)

by Susan Meredith with Kitty Gair and Elaine Schwinge. 1998. Published by Alaska Public Health Nurses Assoc. (about the ship of nurses which visited Villages, 1946-48) 0-965984-91-5, http://www.uaf.edu/uapress/books/AlaskasSearchforaKiller.htm

by Otto George. Publisher: Oregon Historical Society (1978). ISBN: 0875950620 (based at Akiak PHS hospital before it moved to Bethel).

by Nancy Jordan. 1996. Publisher: Epicenter Pr. ISBN: 094539750X (first Alaska health commissioner).