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Help wanted — distribute hunters pamphlet
If someone could help locally distribute the state’s Fish & Game pamphlet on what hunters should know, please contact Phil Perry at F&G in Bethel. Is there a store or post office or tribal...
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Experts will test birds for signs of avian flu
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...
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Local Supplies
Please add (or correct) to this list via the comments box below. This is a listing of local supplies. Some may be commercial outlets (for example, stores) and others may be local caches (firehouse)....
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Masks — Types, Choosing (PPE)
2011-06-16 Some new data about the effectiveness of PPE against flu– But the truth is, our knowledge of how influenza spreads, and what barriers work well to protect HCWs, is severely limited. Which is...
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Sampling Bird Cloaca
The Anchorage Daily News has some photos of how the birds are caught and sampled, including this one. http://www.adn.com/life/health/birdflu/story/7739824p-7651487c.html Site Search Tags: cloaca,...
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Villagers living in bird flu’s flight path
The story is not timely. However, it is good to be reminded that the possibility of pandemic influenza (highly pathogenic avian influenza) still exists. For us, it is still good to be reminded to take...
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Cancer vaccine now available
speaking of My 3 things everyone should know to prevent bird flu The Section of Epidemiology Bulletin, State of Alaska released today announces the good news that the vaccine against the virus causing...
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Mr Purell, City Clerk
I found Mr Purell at the Bethel City Clerk’s office, a great idea, Sandra. Someone is thinking of others! and practicing preparedness. [and reading | New employer business preparedness resource |/]...
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Cancer vaccine update
2008-11-08 State limits access to 2 free vaccines http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/581569.html For the first time in more than 30 years, the State of Alaska will no longer offer all vaccinations...
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Dirty Jobs in Bethel, goose butts
[revised] I don’t have cable or satellite (one of the few) so I’ll try to see this at a friend’s house. He came out this spring to do some of the H5N1 bird flu or avian influenza monitoring in the...
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CDC guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings
I’m not sure how I missed this reference. It appeared in the Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report Recommendations and Reports, October 25, 2002 / 51(RR16);1-44 They provide a glossary, an interesting...
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New scientific summary of flu transmission and protection
Influenza and Personal Protective Respiratory Equipment The Council of Canadian Academies was asked by the Government of Canada to undertake an assessment on the modes of transmission of influenza and...
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How to avoid swine flu H1N1, or any other, quick list
Just visited western Massachusetts, Amherst area. None of the stores (including Whole Foods) and doctors’ offices, medical centers, or retirement places that I saw had any hand sanitizer available for...
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Some costs of not using the Alaska PFD and leading by example
Andrew Halcro last week wrote a succinct piece on an all too common tragedy in Alaska and New Mexico. At first glance it had all the makings of a Hollywood movie set. But this was no Hollywood movie...
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Respirator fit of a medium mask on a group of South Africans: a...
http://www.ehjournal.net/content/10/1/17 Background: In South Africa, respiratory protective equipment is often the primary control method used to protect workers. This preliminary study investigated...
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