Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak science

The Fluwickie (see sidebar) has a listing of info in various languages, many of which are from the NZ/Aotearoa public health site.

• http://www.fluwikie.com/pmwiki.php?n=Consequences.Languages

Brochures, Getting ready for a flu pandemic
Posters, Stop the spread of flu germs

10% of our elders in Bethel speak Korean. Other Bethel languages include

Getting ready for a flu pandemic - Korean (PDF, 704 kB)
Getting ready for a flu pandemic - Hindi (PDF, 716 kB)
Getting ready for a flu pandemic - Samoan (PDF, 611 kB)
Getting ready for a flu pandemic - Arabic (PDF, 843 kB)

Of course, not everyone is literate in their spoken languages. International symbols, especially for mass diasters, would be essential.

As I mentioned in April 2006 to the editor, Delta Discovery–

Sometimes it is easy to overlook the great cultural wealth we have at hand in Bethel. For a city so small, we benefit so much from so many of us born overseas. They feed our spirits, feed our minds, feed our stomachs, feed our souls. I would like to thank the nurses, cab drivers, tellers, doctors, counsellors, teachers, preachers, restaurateurs, entrepreneurs, wives, elders, et al. who make our lives in Bethel richer.This is an incomplete list that would be interesting if others can add to it — Thank you, those born in

Albania
Argentina
Cameroon
Canada
China
Cyprus
former Czechoslovakia
El Salvador
France
India
Iran
Israel
Japan
Korea
Lebanon
Macedonia
Mexico
Montenegro
Nepal
perhaps New Zealand?
Nigeria
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Puerto Rico
Russia
Samoa/American Samoa
Saudi Arabia
former Yugoslavia

The major spoken languages in Bethel include Yup’ik, Cup’ik, and Inupiaq Eskimo; Athabascan, Russian, Spanish, French, Korean, Greek, Serbian, Farsi, English (also known as gussack, which itself is Russian in origin for non-Yup’ik speakers), …

Please add to the list.

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This comes in pdf format of individual chapters. I haven’t had a chance to review this yet. It is aimed at health educators who too often jump in without listening first.

[I once had the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, ATSDR, part of EPA and CDC, insist that we had to write materials in the local language. We kept insisting that the indigenous language was not a written one; even if it were, most speakers couldn’t read it; and we really wanted to use dance as a medium of education, not reading. The Agency also insisted we do telephone surveys, even though only about half of us had telephones. Stupid us for thinking we were capable of doing our own research.]

“Teaching Patients With Low Literacy Skills, 2nd Ed.” 1996, JB Lippincott Pub. is now available on line and may be read and downloaded at no charge.

• http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/doak.html

[posted on the HealthLiteracy listserv]

from the excellent blog, Bringing Health Information to Communities

• http://library.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/archives/cat_articles.html#001816

Site Search Tags: BHIC, health+ed, literacy

via the great site, http://medlib.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/

New: CDC’s 2006-07 Flu Gallery Materials
On August 21, CDC posted an array of downloadable patient and provider education materials to its influenza web section: Patient education materials for the 2006-07 flu season; provider education materials for the 2006-07 flu season; patient screening form for trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV); Stop the Spread of Germs posters and flyers in several languages; fact sheets in several languages and influenza vaccine VISs. Materials:

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/patiented.htm

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.]

Site Search Tags: prohibition, Bethel, CoB, connotea, policy

This is a nice experiment. The information is needed in the overall understanding of pandemic infections and of emerging infections. People are part of the environment, but we mediate our interactions through culture. In the H5N1 example, we domesticate waterfowl and therefore provide a new natural pathway. This experiment is designed to understand the characteristics of that pathway.

[Unfortunately, it doesn’t sound like the other participants in the research have been included in its design (public involvement) which means that only parts of the study have been thought through. For example, sometimes “subjects” want to be identified in reports. They contribute as much as the other experts to the success of the questions asked.]

(see if you can provide alternative hypotheses to test, that is, what other reasons may account for finding antibodies, the record of exposure, or for not finding antibodies?)
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This just came in through my Google news alert. I cannot find any mention on the state’s flu pages.
http://www.avianflu.alaska.gov/ or here http://www.pandemicflu.alaska.gov/ or here http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/news/dept_releases.php

“Article Last Updated: 06/09/2006 12:49:03 PM AKDT

Bird testing in Alaska reveals no sign of flu
Associated Press

A spokesman for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game says no highly pathogenic avian H5N21 flu virus has been found in Alaska birds sampled so far. About two-thousand samples have been collected and tested.

Division of Wildlife Conservation director Matt Robus says most of the birds tested were killed by hunters in southwest Alaska and there are no indications that the virus has reached the state.”

Read the rest here–
http://www.ktva.com/alaska/ci_3919388

Interagency Public Information Work Group (retrieved 28 May 2006)

Some things to note now—the “interagency” doesn’t include

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I put this list together for the USDA Natural Resources & Conservation Service in 2002. It is a listing of references I recommend to communities and other professionals concerned with public involvement. This isn’t a comprehensive (nor especially up to date) listing of references but includes books and websites I have found to be especially useful for myself and others. Books are listed first, then websites. The Internet sites also have training available. The FHWA (Federal Highway Administration) course is very good.

Public involvement, as a public governance process, has evolved within the highway and risk (environmental health) contexts especially as a requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). However, much of the fundamental research developed within applied anthropology, usually within a health, appropriate technology, or nutrition context. “Expert systems” and now “accessibility” re: WWW sites, are other areas to look to for additional information.

I’ve put asterisks next to names in the risk communication field who will have other articles and books. The titles in BOLD are especially useful to communities. Too often when an institution or agency speaks about “stakeholders” they mean they hold the stake while the community is the recipient.
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Thought experiments (which I think was Einstein’s term) or models or exercises — are very important to science and to planning. Unfortunately, we have not had public discussions in our region. In San Jose agencies had this discussion but they don’t seem to have involved the public, too. (Maybe people have been discussing in the newspapers or churches?) Many of us haven’t faced the moral dilemmas that even firefighters or first aiders are trained for. Individuals have certainly asked themselves, “what if….?” whether about false rumors or spring flooding or an infected person. But in remote areas it would be so much better if we thought about contingencies as a community.
Pam

Forum Debate Rights in a Pandemic
from San Jose Mercury News

Here’s how a worldwide flu epidemic might start:

A sales manager for a multinational corporation returns to his California office from a business trip to Vietnam, feeling sick.

Within days this otherwise healthy man is near death. Other employees come down with a flu-like illness. A cleaning woman dies.

Tests show he has infected his co-workers with a form of bird flu that originated in Asia. Public health officials fear the worst: an outbreak of deadly pandemic flu.

What responsibility does the multinational corporation have to its workers? Can public health officials make residents stay in their homes to prevent the spread of disease? Can the government commandeer a local doctor’s supply of Tamiflu for people who need it most, or force nurses to be vaccinated? What if frightened nurses refuse to work?

http://tinyurl.com/l8two
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Planning can help avoid mistakes. Planning can help visualize the event. Planning can bring together people who will need to know each other during a pandemic. The more people involved the better. A strong argument for public participation and planning at the local level.

It’s not the plan, it’s the planning.
Read the rest here
http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/2006/04/not-plan-but-planning.html

Effect Measure is one of the web logs (blogs) that I track about H5N1. This comment about an article in the Wall Street Journal is a succinct summary of why “We have a plan” is a statement that we shouldn’t rely upon, but “We are planning” is.

These business card sized information cards take up less scarce bulletin board space than flyers and less counter or desk space. They are cheaper to mail out, too.

These are MS Word files with information formatted for standard business cards, Avery Label 5762.

This file has the front information.
Bird Flu card front

This file has the backside information, websites to start with.
Bird Flu card back

Let me know of any changes needed.

This Googled search was an effort to measure the types of information, and source, for use in disaster planning. So far, as mentioned in another post,

[link to come]

the birds count for more than the people in terms of enabling us to assess the risk and the resources for mitigating our particular risk.

The second day’s pickup of Anne Sutton’s article is leaning a bit more to the sensational presentation. I like the image Alfred Hitchcock USA Today used–

Another interesting thing to notice is that wire stories don’t always credit the original author; that not all printed versions include the entire wire version; some editors do add value to the story by providing links to US FWS or to others for the reader to follow up. And Sunday in the US is news hungry for the fat paper day.

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Kuskokwim flu, 1:30 AKT, 11 Mar 2006 Results of about 67 for kuskokwim flu
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Houston Chronicle, United States - 3 hours ago
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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
The Westfall Weekly News, Canada - 2 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Herald News Daily, ND - 2 hours ago
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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Pierceland Herald, Canada - 2 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Jackson News-Tribune, WY - 2 hours ago
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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Leading The Charge, Australia - 2 hours ago
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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Olberlin, KS - 2 hours ago
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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Brocktown News, USA - 2 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Ely Times, USA - 2 hours ago
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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
The Kindred Times, Utah - 2 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
CBS News - 3 hours ago
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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Los Angeles Times, CA - 3 hours ago
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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Newsday, NY - 3 hours ago
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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Washington Post, United States - 3 hours ago
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Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
San Jose Mercury News, USA - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 3 hours ago
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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Forbes - 3 hours ago
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Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Miami Herald, FL - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
ABC News - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers To Help Bird Flu Survey
CBS 11, TX - 1 hour ago
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Alaska Villagers To Help Bird Flu Survey
CBS 2, CA - 1 hour ago
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Alaska Villagers To Help Bird Flu Survey
KDKA, PA - 1 hour ago
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Alaska Villagers To Help Bird Flu Survey
CBS 13, CA - 1 hour ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers To Help Bird Flu Survey
WCCO, MN - 1 hour ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers To Help Bird Flu Survey
CBS 3, PA - 1 hour ago
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Alaska Villagers To Help Bird Flu Survey
WJZ, MD - 1 hour ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers To Help Bird Flu Survey
CBS 4, FL - 1 hour ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers To Help Bird Flu Survey
CBS 5 - Green Bay, WI - 1 hour ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers To Help Bird Flu Survey
CBS4Boston, Boston - 1 hour ago
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Alaska Villagers To Help Bird Flu Survey
cbs4denver.com, CO - 1 hour ago
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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Orlando Sentinel, FL - 3 hours ago
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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
WJLA, DC - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
The Ledger, FL - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
phillyBurbs.com, PA - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
The Grand Rapids Press, MI - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Times Daily, AL - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Hartford Courant, United States - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers — a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Baltimore Sun, United States - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers — a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Penn Live, PA - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Baltimore Sun, United States - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers — a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Penn Live, PA - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Times Picayune, LA - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Grand Forks Herald, ND - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
WTOP, D.C. - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers _ a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Ocala.com, FL - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Bradenton Herald, United States - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Contra Costa Times, CA - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
MLive.com, MI - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
The State, SC - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Kentucky.com, KY - 3 hours ago
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Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Duluth News Tribune, MN - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska Villagers To Help Bird Flu Survey
WRAL.com, NC - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers _ a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Monterey County Herald, CA - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Centre Daily Times, PA - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
Biloxi Sun Herald, USA - 3 hours ago
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Bird watchers get windfall
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, AK - Mar 9, 2006
… But there is debate about how the flu is spreading … in Alaska will focus on 22 species of birds and sampling will largely take place in Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, on …
Hunters watch for sick birds
Juneau Empire (subscription), AK - Mar 5, 2006
… by the millions in the surrounding delta of the mighty Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers - a … So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in migratory birds in …
Alaskan villagers have key role
Arizona Daily Star, AZ - Mar 4, 2006
… and Kuskokwim rivers. It’s considered the crossroads for birds migrating between Asia and North America. So far, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, found in …
Alaska study links bad plumbing, disease
United Press International - Feb 27, 2006
… the Centers for Disease Control examined 49 villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in … He said that the infection rates for pneumonia and flu were three times as …

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Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
Houston Chronicle, United States - Mar 11, 2006
By ANNE SUTTON Associated Press Writer. JUNEAU, Alaska He lives in one of the most remote areas of North America, but that hasn’t stopped James Active Jr. …
EXPECTING TROUBLE: DELTA IS GATEWAY FOR ASIAN BIRDS A Bounty and a …
Winston-Salem Journal, NC - 21 hours ago
He lives in one of the most remote areas of North America, but that hasn’t stopped James Active Jr. from worrying about bird flu on its march around the world. …
Alaska villagers to help bird flu survey
USA Today - Mar 11, 2006
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) He lives in one of the most remote areas of North America, but that hasn’t stopped James Active Jr. from …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
CBS News - Mar 11, 2006
(AP) He lives in one of the most remote areas of North America, but that hasn’t stopped James Active Jr. from worrying about bird …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
ABC News - Mar 11, 2006
By ANNE SUTTON. JUNEAU, Alaska Mar 11, 2006 (AP) He lives in one of the most remote areas of North America, but that hasn’t stopped James Active Jr. …
Alaska Villagers to Help Bird Flu Survey
WTOP, D.C. - Mar 11, 2006
By ANNE SUTTON Associated Press Writer. JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - He lives in one of the most remote areas of North America, but that …