'Rescued'
The Coast Guard rescued two California
boaters from the life raft and the partially submerged, 40-foot
sailing vessel Hayden Bay after the pair abandoned ship about
5:30 Wednesday morning 36 miles northwest of Ketchikan.
Front Page Photo Official U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy Station
Ketchikan
Alaska: Summer
Brings Tourists and Health Messages; More potential for Norovirus
encourages agency coordination and lots of handwashing -
Recently, more than 400 people aboard a cruise ship in Alaska
became ill with Norovirus. With many more cruise ships expected
in our communities throughout the summer, as well as thousands
of other tourists arriving in Alaska by plane and automobile,
the potential is high that we will see additional cases of Norovirus
and other infectious diseases this summer.
The Alaska Department of Health
and Social Services, Division of Public Health, is coordinating
with the CDC and other local, state and federal agencies to help
ensure our communities are safe and healthy. State Public Health
Nurses are available in most communities to advise local business
owners and tourism industry workers on the proper precautions
to take to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases like
Norovirus. The State also coordinates with the U.S. Coast Guard,
the State Emergency Coordination Center, Alaska State Troopers,
in addition to local health care facilities and emergency workers
in case additional assistance is needed caring for or transporting
sick individuals to health care facilities. - Read
more...
Friday - June 18, 2004
Alaska: Mammoths
stranded on Bering Sea island delayed extinction - Woolly
mammoths stranded on the Pribilofs provided the first record
in the Americas of a mammoth population to have survived the
Pleistocene. St. Paul, one of the five islands in the Bering
Sea Pribilofs, was home to mammoths that survived the extinctions
that wiped out mainland and other Bering Sea island mammoth populations.
In an article in the June 17,
2004 edition of the journal Nature, R. Dale Guthrie, professor
emeritus at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University
of Alaska Fairbanks, says that when mammoths on the mainland
of Alaska and other Bering Sea islands died out during the extinctions
at the end of the Pleistocene era (about 11,000 years ago) those
on the Pribilofs survived and new radiocarbon dates show how.
- Read
more...
Friday - June 18, 2004
Alaska: Governor
Signs Five More Bills Into Law - Governor Frank Murkowski
signed into law five new bills Thursday, following remarks at
a Fairbanks Rotary luncheon. - Read
more...
Friday - June 18, 2004
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