THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE HAS BEEN REDISCOVERED IN ALASKA

From the ADN:
A new Centers for Disease Control study shows a strong link between a lack of indoor plumbing and high rates of potentially life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia and meningitis among children in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. 

RESEARCH SHOWS UNSANITARY DISPOSAL OF HUMAN WASTE AND NOT WASHING HANDS LEADS TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE

DUH!

Is this a revelation to anyone? I wonder what Joseph Lister Louis Pasteur, Ignaz Semmelweis, or Robert Koch would have to say about the revelation in the year 2010 that disease can be prevented with hand washing and proper disposal of human waste. Perhaps something like, NO SHIT! My we have come so far, thank goodness our country is spending money on this research. Maybe next we can have a study that shows lack of teaching about birth control leads to pregnancy. We all know that will be a revelation to many in charge of education and health services in Alaska. After government agencies have diverted the money allotted to them to do research on CFIDS/ME (which they gave the idiotic name Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), they essentially ignored all the people suffering with it for about twenty-five years. It now appears to be caused by a retrovirus called XMRV(it was found in up to 95% of a wide ranging group with CFIDS/ME) and most likely is in the blood supply, so we all know what good judgment they have.

There was a house with no plumbing for a toilet right across the street from Norton Sound Health Corporation. They just put the honey buckets in the yard. It smelled great in the spring time along with all the dog shit which covered the yards and streets all over the place. There was so much dog poop laying around in the spring that people did not believe my stories about it and I had to send them pictures.

At the hospital they were not using Universal Precautions, nor isolating MRSA patients. They told me everyone had it and no one ever died from it. Really, I guess I just imagined all those people I took care of in ICUs who died from MRSA, especially MRSA pneumonia. I tried to get doctors to write orders for them to put them in isolation and they would not. In a situation where people at the hospital are going back to situations where there is no running water, extra precautions are needed to keep infectious diseases from spreading to the communities. This is pretty basic stuff.

 Did they do this research to shame the government into taking action? The standard for housing in the rural areas as I have found out the hard way is at third world country levels. The landlord tenant act is certainly not followed by many landlords and is not worth the paper it is written on.