Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak science

http://declanbutler.info/Flumaps1/avianflu.html

Google Earth maps of avian flu spread put together by Declan Butler. He’s a journalist with Nature magazine, an international scientific journal similar to Science. I don’t have a computer new enough or an Internet connection fast enough to try these maps out, but most schools should be able to. He explains how he developed these maps. He also has links to other H5N1 maps.

Blog: http://declanbutler.info/blog/
Nature: http://www.nature.com

Here are some of the preparedness checklists from www.pandemicflu.gov, but transformed so they can be localized. The schools checklist was discussed earlier. The documents are in MS Word 97 file formats. Read the rest of this entry »

By ANN POTEMPA, Anchorage Daily News

Read the article here —
http://www.adn.com/life/story/7564836p-7476103c.html
Published: March 25, 2006, Last Modified: March 25, 2006 at 02:53 AM

About 40 biologists from throughout the state came to Anchorage Friday to learn how to test wild birds in Alaska for H5N1, the bird flu strain that’s killed birds and people in Asia and beyond….

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