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Here at unknowncountry.com, we bring you regular reports about bird flu?and also about Alaska. Now it turns out that one of the most dangerous bird flu threats is coming FROM that state.

Jia-Rui Chong writes in the Sunday, October 22 Los Angeles Times that members of an isolated Alaskan native tribe called the Yup’iks are receiving regular medical checkups from physicians who fly in from government public health departments. The reason: Wild birds, which are one of their main food sources, may carry the deadly bird flu virus which they have brought from their migrations into Asia.
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We’re losing bees at a rapid rate, but we can’t do without them. The National Research Council has released a report stating that pollinators such as bees, birds, and many others, who are essential to crops, food and, ultimately, all human life, are in decline worldwide.
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We recently revealed that the death toll in Iraq is much higher than has been reported in the mainstream media. Doctors working in Iraq say that more than half of the civilians killed could have been saved if better medical equipment and more experienced staff and were available. We’re putting billions of dollars into the war effort, but we won’t win Iraqi hearts and minds if we don’t spend some of this money on medical equipment.
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We’ve written before that Alaska is the canary in the coal mine, because the effects of global warming are showing up there first. Now we?ve learned that over ten thousand Alaskan lakes have shrunk or dried up in the last half century.

Most of this is due to evaporation caused by global warming. In LiveScience.com, Sara Goudarzi quotes researcher David Verbyla as saying, “Alaska is important in terms of waterfowl production, and if you have a lowering of the water table, that could have a potentially huge impact on waterfowl production.” Alaska’s economy depends on fishing as well.

Will lakes in the rest of the country be next? The government’s neglect about the subject of climate change is so extreme that it almost seems like some sort of conspiracy.
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