Slaking the influenza virus

Article Abstract:

Pathologist Johan Hultin and the villagers of Brevig Mission resolved on the the world's greatest mysteries in discovering the lethal secrets of the 1918 Spanish flu virus. After his studies, he followed an idea that frozen bodies in the North may reveal an intact virus. His initial research in 1951 yielded only a dead virus. When Jeffery Taubenberg published methods of studying dead viruses in 1997, Hultin went back to Brevig Mission. A vaccine is expected over the next few years.

Health aspects, Behavior, Pathologists, Hultin, Johan

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Ready to burn

Article Abstract:

The risks of forest fires in Anchorage's hillside, which has abundant combustible black and white spruce trees, are becoming a cause of concern for the Alaska Division of Forestry. The risks are aggravated every summer as the region is densely populated and even a slight negligence with fire on part of residence could result in a tragedy of unprecedented proportions. Previous fire spreads in the region and the rescue methods and measures are also discussed.

General services, Services information, Parent-to-subsidiary activities, Subsidiary-to-parent activities, Safety and security measures, Services, Natural resources, Control, Forest fires, Anchorage, Alaska, Subsidiaries, divisions and units, Alaska. Department of Natural Resources

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A long night of dying

Article Abstract:

The influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 reached the community of Uqpiktulik, Alaska, in November. Alice Kakarak who was born in 1904 lost her grandfather and parents. Her story of how she and her siblings survived, though their own sickness, includes how they cared for an infant sibling who was not yet walking.

1918 AD

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