Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak science

Here is the original article.

• http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles/images/journals/lancet/s0140673606694919.pdf

Here is how one newspaper headlined it—
Survey says 600,000 have died in Iraq war
By Clive Cookson, Science Editor, and Steve Negus, Iraq Correspondent

• http://tinyurl.com/jrmcf

Financial Times
Published: October 11 2006 17:37 | Last updated: October 11 2006 17:37

or

Disputed study claims 655,000 Iraqi deaths
POSTED: 2:57 a.m. EDT, October 11, 2006 CNN

• http://tinyurl.com/kyw37

or

Enormous death toll of Iraq invasion revealed
11 October 2006, NewScientist.com news service, Debora MacKenzie

• http://tinyurl.com/tq7dl

or

One in 40 Iraqis ‘killed since invasion’
US and Britain reject journal’s finding that death toll has topped 650,000
Sarah Boseley, health editor, Thursday October 12, 2006, The Guardian

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1920132,00.html

or

Iraq casualty figures open up new battleground
By Dan Murphy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

• http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1013/p01s04-woiq.html

“The possibility of introducing bias in any kind of survey is real, and you spend more time designing the survey to eliminate the sources of bias then actually carrying it out,” he says. “One of the real risks in this is that people report deaths that don’t occur, so we did ask for death certificates. And in 92 percent of cases, they were provided.”

To be sure, the researchers of the Lancet study says possible errors leave a range between a low of 392,979 additional deaths and a high of 942,636. The 601,000 figure is the median.

The commonly accepted numbers until now have been much lower than Lancet surveys. The Iraq Body Count, a website that tracks civilian deaths in the war by compiling data from news reports, estimates 48,000 deaths have been reported in the media, while the Iraq Index sponsored by the Brookings Institution in Washington has counted 61,000 civilian deaths. President Bush estimated 30,000 civilian deaths late last year.

Fortunately,

• The Lancet paper on the Iraq War toll - http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2006/10/ the_lancet_paper_on_the_iraq_w.php

presents some the background to the current study.

The purpose in presenting this here is to examine the science, the evidence.

What about the science? It doesn’t take much reflection to see that estimating mortality from an invasion with a disastrous and chaotic aftermath is no simple matter.

The Reveres are pretty good at asking the questions you should be asking of medical or health studies. What else could account for the results? If the alternatives are not feasible, then the study has greater validity, whether or not we “like” the results.

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As students of this site are aware, avian influenza already exists in the waterfowl and domestic fowl of North America (contrary to the many public services announcements in May and June 2006). It is a natural phenomenon.

http://tinyurl.com/fok3n
Archive Number 20060704.1834, Published Date 04-JUL-2006
Subject PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza, ostriches - South Africa, H5N2: OIE

“[First of all, this is _not_ the Avian Influenza virus that has infected humans. We have previously seen this virus — Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N2 (HPAI H5N2) — in North America and Europe. In 1983, a now historic outbreak in Pennsylvania in the USA was attributed to H5N2. Mexico (1994) and Texas, USA (2004) also had North American HPAI H5N2 outbreaks. Italy had HPAI H5N2 in 1997 (Italy also had HPAI H7N1 in turkeys in 1999- 2000). A complete table of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza outbreaks in poultry by subtype until the end of 2003 is available at

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2004_03_02/en/

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datetime=”2006-10-09 T05:49:12+00:00 Distance between 41:16:00N 129:06:00E (Gilju in Hamgyong province, North Korea) and Bethel, Alaska, United States, as the fallout flies:

3122 miles (5024 km) (2713 nautical miles)

Initial heading from 41:16:00N 129:06:00E to Bethel: northeast (40.2 degrees)
Initial heading from Bethel to 41:16:00N 129:06:00E: west (277.2 degrees)

View larger map here

http://tinyurl.com/hhxnw

Read the story here–

http://tinyurl.com/ezf37
A warhead found in Alaska? The report’s longevity illustrates the uncertainty and fear.
By Barbara Demick, Times Staff Writer, July 7, 2006

The North Koreans have been trying to develop a multistage missile capable of reaching the United States since at least the early 1990s…

Debris was strewn thousands of miles from the launch site, leading to speculation that the range was longer than it actually was….

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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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I was hoping for additional information guides for local businesses to use in their preparations. I thought the Mentoring Initiative from Ready.GOV (Homeland Security, home of FEMA) would be useful.

Designed as a call-to-action for business leaders, the Ready Campaign has created Ready Business Mentoring Initiative. This new initiative is designed to help owners and managers of small and medium-sized businesses prepare for emergencies.

http://www.ready.gov/business/mentor/index.htm

Here is the entire text of the (on-line in pdf format) Business Emergency Supply Checklist -
http://www.ready.gov/business/_downloads/emergency_supplies.pdf

Emergency Supplies
Talk to your co-workers about what emergency supplies the company can feasibly provide, if any, and which ones individuals should consider keeping on hand. Recommended emergency supplies include the following:

• Water, amounts for portable kits will vary. Individuals should determine what amount they are able to both store comfortably and to transport to other locations. If it is feasible, store one gallon of water per person per day, for drinking and sanitation
• Food, at least a three-day supply of non-perishable food
• Battery-powered radio and extra batteries
• Flashlight and extra batteries
• First Aid kit
• Whistle to signal for help
• Dust or filter masks, readily available in hardware stores, which are rated based on how small a particle they filter
• Moist towelettes for sanitation
• Wrench or pliers to turn off utilities
• Can opener for food (if kit contains canned food)
• Plastic sheeting and duct tape to “seal the room”
• Garbage bags and plastic ties for personal sanitation
• Emergency Supplies

Those of you who believe in always getting ready can explain the errors in the above to those awaiting further instructions from the governments, schools, churches, health corp. (about whether and what to do in emergencies).

[another source of business planning is from FluWickie

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

A commentary about Katrina’s “planning” but which is relevant for anyone’s preparedness.

—re: dee Martinez (Submitted: 09/04/2005 10:51 am

• http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/32089.html

and evacuation “plans” and no one could know the levees would break etc.—

Last week I lost a Santa Fé friend. In the 1980s, the Republicans were planning evacuation strategies in case of nuclear attacks. I was at Los Alamos National Lab trying to get the off-site academics, i.e., anthropologists, who were most able to answer the holistic question “what would Nuclear Winter mean to humans” [not people as “patients” or as “soldiers” buit as real people] interested in answering that question. ( Anthropology of Human Survival)

My friend took a detailed look closer to home. According to FEMA (or whatever it was then) the idea was that the folks from Albuquerque would drive up to SFé. Once here (there) they would stay at St Kat’s Indian School, in the room with all the plate glass windows. Three times a day everyone would walk down and back through the fallout to McDonald’s for feeding.

Pete Dyke mapped out each inch and square inch of this “plan” and brought it to everyone’s attention. Among other things, it turns out the evacuation plan allowed a total space smaller than a single bed for each person.

The city ended up not approving the so-called evacuation plan. This is not to say that there shouldn’t be evacuation and emergency plans; but that every one of these plans needs detailed scrutiny from citizens like Pete. There aren’t many like Pete, and now there is one fewer.

I hope students would be able to do a detailed critical study of the science in this TV drama, and to discuss this with their families. Dramatic presentations of issues can be very effective, but as with any other information source, a critical eye is needed.

There are websites, such as the bad physics site, which point out the often humorous errors in TV and movies.
http://www.jal.cc.il.us/~mikolajsawicki/bad_physics.htm http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html
Pam

Bird flu hitting TV screens May 9
ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press
Posted on Fri, Apr. 28, 2006

WASHINGTON - Bodies piling up so quickly it takes dump trucks to haul them away. Barbed wire to keep whole neighborhoods quarantined. It’s Hollywood’s version of bird flu, a blur of fact and fiction that some scientists say could confuse the public.

“Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America,” an ABC made-for-television movie, airs May 9, just as scientists are to begin testing of wild birds in Alaska that could herald the arrival of bird flu in North America. …

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I highly recommend people interested in the broader area of health, culture, and environment to read McElroy, Ann, and Patricia K. Townsend, 2004 Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective, 4th edition, Westview Press. Dr. McElroy has worked with the Inuit, Read the rest of this entry »

Supercourse www.pitt.edu/~super1/ from the University of Pittsburgh

Supercourse is a global repository of lectures on public health and prevention targeting educators across the world. Supercourse has a network of over 32000 scientists in 151 countries who are sharing for free a library of over 2500 lectures.

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News story with maps and quick time animation
“Virtual Pandemic: 90 Days to Infect Entire U.S.”

This is a simulation of the transmissibility of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus which evolves to make the jump to humans. All simulations depend on their conditions set by the modellers (programmers). Therefore, Alaska and Hawai’i aren’t shown as red or yellow—not because we are invincible but because we weren’t included.

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In addition to describing hoaxes and chain letters found on the Internet, we will discuss how to recognize hoaxes, what to do about them, and some of the history of hoaxes on the Internet.

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

http://snopes.com/

Hoaxbusters has references to other sites including Read the rest of this entry »

This is an interesting news article which discusses how the avian flu may or may not become human H5N1, and the latest scientific discussion about what is known.

March 28, 2006
Making a Ferret Sneeze for Hints to the Transmission of Bird Flu
By DENISE GRADY” Read article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/28/science/28viru.html

It is useful in evaluating information and strategic planning to compare and contrast with what others are doing. This is what Minnesota has done to alert people about being prepared. The format of the information is similar to that of WHO (posted previosuly) and might be a useful model for our local planning.
Pam

Talking points’ on bird flu brought up
Crookston Daily Times - Crookston,MN,USA
from Google Alert for: alaska bird flu

By Natalie J. Ostgaard, City Editor

With reports that the avian flu will soon be hitting birds in North America, Polk County Public Health Director Sheri Altepeter said her agency was updated earlier this week with a wealth of information on the topic. A list of “public health talking points” covers “pretty much everything we know about this at this time,” she said.

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[14apr2006, The Why Files are another excellent source of science explanation, from the University of Wisconsin. Pam]
http://whyfiles.org/231flu_vaccine/

The bird flu has killed millions of birds and more than 60 people in Asia. So far, the virus does not seem to infect one person directly from another. …

Three strategies have been discussed to fight an avian influenza once it starts to spread between people: Drugs, quarantine, and vaccines.

Each strategy has major pitfalls….

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http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay40.htm

Why smart people defend bad ideas - scottberkun.com:

“Instead I’m saying that short term bits of data are neither reliable nor a wise way to go about making important long term decisions. Intelligent people do this all the time, and since it’s so commonly accepted as a rule of thumb (last time + the time before that), it’s often accepted in place of actual thinking. Always remember that humans, given our evolution, are very bad at seeing the cumulative effects of behavior, and underestimate how things like compound interest or that one cigarette a day, can in the long term, have surprisingly large impacts despite clearly low short term effects.”

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No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money-changer.

Sir Thomas Browne as quoted by Dwight J. Ingle, 1958 Principles of Research in Biology and Medicine. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott Co., p. 19

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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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 …