Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak science

….How would the YK Delta respond to a pandemic?

In preparation for the possibility of a pandemic, organizations in the YK Delta have joined together to plan a coordinated response.

These organizations include the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation, the Association of Village Council Presidents, Bethel Regional Public Health Center, Bethel Family Clinic, other departments from the State of Alaska, and local emergency responders.

Our goal is to keep the people of the YK Delta informed with the most accurate information about any developments or risks associated with the H5N1 “bird flu” or any other possible pandemic that could impact the people of the YK Delta. In the event of a pandemic, our planning committee is focused on assuring a coordinated response and recovery to our villages in the YK Delta….

Read the entire article in the

YKHC Messenger, July 15, 2006
http://www.ykhc.org/1250.cfm

2006-07-27 I moved this up from a comment on Local alcohol prohibition, police presence and serious injury in isolated Alaska Native villages so I could better characterize the entry. mpb

I have been assembling references about alcohol control points and whether increasing prohibition (which the City Council of Bethel wishes to do) has any effect on the rate (prevalence) or incidence of crime, chronic alcoholism, or addiction. The references have been assembled in

http://www.connotea.org/user/Hlthenvt

or use your own tags (search terms) to find similar articles cited in the collection as a whole

http://www.Connotea.org

This issue [further alcohol control through a city-run office] needs careful examination which the City of Bethel Council hasn’t yet done, before changing community policy.** Public involvement procedures should provide at least three proposed alternatives–

no action

action 1

action 2

with the pros and cons (positive and negative impacts) of each alternative. (Or, multiple working hypotheses with procedures to falsify them.)

[**the proposal was removed from City Council action by a special election which now requires any establishment of a city-run alcohol dispensing center to be put to a vote of all Bethel voters.]

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I’m glad YKHC included the reference to where one can sign up directly for the Fish & Wildlife news releases. 2006-07-28 Turns out this is not a valid address for the list-serv and the Alaska regional news service evidently no longer exists, “Instructions on how to subscribe to the fws-alaska-news listserver for the Alaska Region (Region 7). http://www.r7.fws.gov/ea/subscribing.html”

YKHC Messenger 06-06 No Bird Flu
Samples show no Bird Flu found in YK Delta … has tested 1210 samples taken from subsistence harvested birds in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta area.
…

http://www.ykhc.org/1236.cfm

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from the press release in the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corp. newsletter

Samples show no Bird Flu found in YK Delta

As of June 13, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working with State and Federal partners, including the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation and the United States Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center laboratory in Madison Wisconsin, has tested 1,210 samples taken from subsistence harvested birds in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta area….

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