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More historical resources (Brevig Mission)

09 Friday Nov 2007

Posted by mpb in H5N1, history

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Maryn McKenna is a journalist who has written a great deal about 1918, first as a newspaper reporter and now as a freelance and also as a staff member at an infectious-disease website. She very kindly sent links to the stories written in 1998 about the Brevig Mission woman’s body that supplied the Taubenberger medical team with actual tissue samples from the 1918 influenza virus. [see also Pandemic Influenza: The Inside Story]

If you go all the way to the bottom there is a diary excerpt from 1918 (we need more first-hand accounts, diaries, oral histories, etc.)

  • http://www.mindspring.com/~mmckenna/flu4.html

There’s also a post by an Alaska-interested blogger here, about another victim account:
http://benmuse.typepad.com/ben_muse/2005/10/avian_flu_comes.html

see previous

  • More historical pandemic resources (Michigan archives)

Site Search Tags: Taubenberger, 1918, Spanish+flu, avian+flu, influenza, pandemic, Brevig+Mission, Alaska, Alaska+Native, Eskimo

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More historical resources, Mr Peter Nick of Russian Mission

11 Friday Jul 2008

Posted by mpb in H5N1, help wanted, history, public involvement, schoolchildren

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Nastasia (Nastasia’s Window to Rural Living – http://yupikteacherinprogress.blogspot.com/), one of the Tundra Teachers, writes from Russian Mission.

Her grandfather Ap’a Peter “Papasneak” Nick just turned 90 years old.

He remembers how the Great Pandemic of 1918-1919 affected him and those around him.

When his health started declining he told me how his mom died when he was around two due to the flu epidemic. He would look down and put his hand in a sweeping motion in front of him and say, “I can still see it when they put her in the mud. My auntie Qiatguq- the first Qiatguq behind me, and behind her my other three aunties.” He said that his aunt that took him in died shortly after his mom, then he was adopted by the couple he calls his parents – Peter and Nastasia Nick. I once asked him what was his mom’s name, he did not recall only knowing her as mom. His biological father was not in the picture, being a Caucasian miner by the name of George Fredricks who later moved to Sleetmute. By the time he was a teenager both his adoptive parents died and he lived with his uncle and cousins.

  • My Grandfather Peter – http://yupikteacherinprogress.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-grandfather-peter.html [there’s a video of him and his family, which unfortunately my computer can’t view]

I hope we get to hear more from him and from others. There is an urgent need to understand how people cope with disasters. In Canada, there has been a special call for nonagenarians to work with epidemiologists.

Read the entry here […] British Columbian? Over 98? Please call
Yesterday Helen Branswell reported on a British Columbia project to interview people who recall the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-19.

Oral histories aren’t just recordings. When asked by prepared interviewers, people’s experiences are invaluable for those yet to come. [see your local archivist or state museum for more information. I have a number of resources I send out to the SciTEK teachers but none posted on-line at the moment.]

I also hope Nastasia continues writing.

Previous posts–

  • What he knew in 1918 could save millions of lives today
    https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/what-he-knew-in-1918-could-save-millions-of-lives-today/
  • Jesse Lee Home, Alaska and the pandemic of 1919
    https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/jesse-lee-home-alaska-and-the-pandemic-of-1919/
  • Alaska History reading list
  • Alaska and Eskimo data in 1920 British report
  • Alaska history books
  • Cangerlaagpiit (Epidemics) historical lessons
  • Excerpts hearings on Alaska influenza devastation
  • Flu history and research database
  • Influenza in Alaska 1919 Hearings
  • Letters from 1918 SW Alaska British Columbia
  • More historical pandemic resources (Michigan archives)
  • More historical resources (Brevig Mission)
  • New historic pandemic resources available
  • The National Archives: Influenza Epidemic of 1918
  • Timeline of Human Flu Pandemics
  • More history to follow up
  • Historical analyses help plan for future pandemics

Site Search Tags: Russian+Mission, nonagenarian, 1918, Spanish+flu, pandemic, oral+history, epidemiology, Yup’ik, Yukon, Tundra+Teachers, schoolchildren, science+projects, SciTEK, heritage

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Bookshelf of Influenza Resources

31 Sunday May 2009

Posted by mpb in H5N1, haz com, history, info sources, science sources

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Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard held a conference about reporting on pandemics. Excerpts from the conference were published on-line in the Spring 2007 Nieman Reports.

Maryn McKenna is currently writing about MRSA at her blog

Creating a Bookshelf of Valuable Resources List compiled by Maryn McKenna. http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100374 It helps to assemble a reference bookshelf,” McKenna says. “I have been writing about pandemic and avian flu since 1997, and here are some of the works I keep on my shelf.”

Avian Flu, A Pandemic & the Role of Journalists: Excerpts From a Conference From November 30 until December 2, 2006, discussion at the Nieman Foundation … “The Next Big Health Crisis — And How to Cover It” brought journalists together with scientists, public health officials, medical experts, academic researchers, law enforcement officers, public policy experts, and Homeland Security officials to talk about how best to prepare for the possible arrival of pandemic flu.

Previous posts about Maryn McKenna
MRSA blog
More historical resources (Brevig Mission)
Pandemic planners urged to tap grass roots


Site Search Tags: McKenna, readings, history, epidemiology, books, influenza, pandemic, news+media, journalism, public+health, Harvard, Nieman

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1918 flu antibodies recovered from survivors

17 Sunday Aug 2008

Posted by mpb in H5N1, history, measures (scientific)

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National Public radio had two good stories about this, yesterday Antibodies To 1918 Flu Found In Elderly Survivors and today, Antibodies To 1918 Flu Resurrected

Once again, an illustration of how important it is to learn from the people who witnessed the 1918/1919 pandemic.

Public release date: 17-Aug-2008
Contact: Craig Boerner
craig.boerner @ vanderbilt .edu
615-322-4747
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
1918 flu antibodies resurrected from elderly survivors

Ninety years after the sweeping destruction of the 1918 flu pandemic, researchers at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt have recovered antibodies to the virus – from elderly survivors of the original outbreak.

In addition to revealing the surprisingly long-lasting immunity to such viruses, these antibodies could be effective treatments to have on hand if another virus similar to the 1918 flu breaks out in the future.

The study, led by James Crowe Jr., M.D., professor of Pediatrics and director of the Vanderbilt Program in Vaccine Sciences, Christopher Basler, Ph.D., at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Eric Altschuler, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, is published online in the journal Nature.

The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed nearly 50 million people worldwide, many of whom were young, healthy adults. With fears of another looming flu pandemic stoked by the emergence of “bird flu” in Asia, researchers have wanted to study the 1918 virus and the immune response to it.

In 2005, researchers from Mount Sinai and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., resurrected the 1918 virus from the bodies of people killed in the outbreak. The bodies, and the virus, had been preserved in the permanently frozen soil of Alaska.

When the investigators approached Crowe, whose lab had developed methods of making antibodies, to try to make antibodies to the 1918 flu, he was skeptical, but agreed to try.

The researchers collected blood samples from 32 survivors age 91-101 years and found that all reacted to the 1918 virus, suggesting that they still possessed antibodies to the virus.

Crowe’s team was then able to isolate exceedingly rare B cells – the immune cells that produce antibodies – from eight of those samples and grow them in culture. Seven of those samples produced antibodies to a 1918 virus protein, suggesting that their immune systems were waiting on standby for a long-awaited second outbreak.

“The B cells have been waiting for at least 60 years – if not 90 years – for that flu to come around again,” Crowe said. “That’s amazing…because it’s the longest memory anyone’s ever demonstrated.”

Crowe’s team then fused cells showing the highest levels of activity against the virus with “immortal” cells to create a cell line that secretes monoclonal (or identical) antibodies to the 1918 flu. The antibodies reacted strongly to the 1918 virus and cross-reacted with proteins from the related 1930 swine flu but not to more modern flu strains.

To test if these antibodies still work against 1918 flu in a living animal, Crowe’s collaborators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention infected mice with the 1918 flu and then administered the antibodies at varying doses. Mice receiving the lowest dose of 1918 antibody – and those receiving a non-reactive “control” antibody – died. All mice given the highest doses of 1918 antibodies survived.

Although aging typically causes immunity to weaken, “these are some of the most potent antibodies ever isolated against a virus,” Crowe said. “They’re the best antibodies I’ve ever seen.”

The findings suggest that B cells responding to a viral infection – and the antibody-based immunity that results – may last a lifetime, even nine or more decades after exposure.

These antibodies could be used as potential treatments for future outbreaks of flu strains similar to the 1918 virus. And the technology could be used to develop antibodies against other viruses, like HIV.

Most importantly, said Crowe, “the lessons we are learning about the 1918 flu tell us a lot about what may happen during a future pandemic.”

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Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., also contributed to the study. The work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/vumc-1fa081508.php


Site Search Tags: 1918, Spanish+flu, heritage, elders, nonagenarians, antibody, Brevig Mission

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MayDay for heirlooms, heritage, and museums preparedness

16 Wednesday Apr 2008

Posted by mpb in deadline, history, info sources, preparedness

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MayDay May 1 heritage preparednessWith spring and break-up just around the corner (please, please, please!) one thing we often forget until too late are family heirlooms, photos, records, manuscripts and so on. Heritage Emergency National Task Force special day is aimed at more formal institutions, but every home or tribal office would benefit from considering emergency preparedness for tangible cultural resources.

If you are in Alaska, contact the state museum in Juneau which has a grant to help local museums with preservation and documentation efforts. Bruce Kato, Chief Curator (bruce DOTkato AT alaska DOTgov),
Telephone: (907) 465-4866, http://www.museums.state.ak.us

April is also Alaska Archaeology Month. This year’s theme is archaeology associated with travel along the National Historic Iditarod Trail.

Archives, libraries, museums, and historic preservation organizations across America are setting aside May 1 to participate in MayDay, a national effort to protect collections from disasters…. Here are some ideas from the Heritage Emergency National Task Force:

  • * If you have a disaster plan, dust it off and bring it up to date.
  • * If you don’t have a plan, make a timeline for developing one.
  • * Get to know your local firefighters and police. Invite them to tour your institution and give pointers on safety and preparedness. A poster outlining tips for working with emergency responders ( www.heritagepreservation.org/catalog/) is available from the Task Force.
  • * Identify the three biggest risks to your collection or building (such as leaking water pipe, heavy snow, or power failure) and outline steps to mitigate them.
  • * Conduct a building evacuation drill and evaluate the results.
  • * Update your staff contact information and create a wallet-size version of your emergency contact roster. See the Pocket Response PlanTM (PRePTM) at www.statearchivists.org/prepare/framework/prep.htm.
  • * Eliminate hazards such as storage in hallways, blocked fire exits, or improper storage of paints or solvents.
  • * Provide staff with easily accessible disaster response information, such as www.heritageemergency.org.
  • * Join forces with nearby institutions and agree to assist each other in case of a disaster.
  • * Establish a method of identifying objects that are most important to your mission, irreplaceable, or most fragile, making evacuation simpler when disaster hits.
  • * Register for a free course to learn how your institution fits into existing emergency response protocols. A list is available at www.heritagepreservation.org/lessons/courses.html…

Heritage Preservation is offering its popular Field Guide to Emergency Response and Emergency Response and Salvage Wheel at special MayDay sale prices from April 15 to May 31.

Related posts–
Cangerlaagpiit (Epidemics) — historical lessons
Alaska History reading list
Alaska history books
Alaska Territorial Guard celebrates 60th anniversary
Lydia T. Black 1925 to 2007
Letters from 1918 SW Alaska British Columbia
Dog-Team Doctor 2
another sneeze video
Jesse Lee Home, Alaska and the pandemic of 1919
More historical resources (Brevig Mission)
More historical pandemic resources (Michigan archives)
Online curriculum for Alaska high school students about their state


Site Search Tags: deadline, preparedness, museums, heritage, photos, libraries, holiday, Katrina

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MRSA blog

03 Thursday Apr 2008

Posted by mpb in help wanted, info sources, sanitation

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Maryn McKenna who provided valuable references to historical pandemic flu (1918-1919), is currently working on a book about Methicillin-resistant staph infections, MRSA.

  • More historical resources (Brevig Mission)

She’s using a web log for her research. This allows us to track some of the latest research findings through her, but also allows interaction with readers as she is developing the book.

  • Superbug http://drugresistantstaph.blogspot.com/

This blog is the virtual whiteboard for my new book, SUPERBUG: The Rise of Drug-Resistant Staph and the Danger of a World Without Antibiotics, coming in 2009 from Free Press. Whether you’re a MRSA researcher or a MRSA victim — or simply a major disease geek — I’m interested in your leads, thoughts, comments and stories. Watch this space for drafts and details as SUPERBUG moves forward.

I’m a freelance writer and author specializing in public health, medicine and health policy. I write features for national magazines and news stories for an infectious-disease website. In addition to this new book about the rise of drug-resistant staph around the world, I’m working on a multi-year research project on emergency room overcrowding and stress. … I’m interested in hearing from researchers, victims and disease geeks; all tips, thoughts, leads and personal stories are welcome. For more about me, check my website in the blogroll, along with other important sites about public health and disease. Let’s get started.

MRSA is now part of our tundra environment, along with various respiratory diseases (RSV, pneumonias) and skin infections (impetigo). This makes us part of the larger world– which we have been, of course, although some readers of the Anchorage Daily News seem blinded to the concept (Respiratory infections in Bush raise alarm : comments). MRSA is an example of evolution, an inadvertent selection by the medical system against the more benign or easier to kill (therefore less dangerous) microbes by killing them off with antibiotics. This allows the resistant microbes to take over. It also allows the resistant microbes to live outside the healthcare system in the community.

See previous posts,

  • 3 things everyone should know to prevent pandemic flu, MRSA, RSV, pink-eye
  • clean-hands-week-how-will-you-celebrate/ (and references)
  • surviving-the-new-killer-bug-mrsa/
  • give-germs-the-boot-not-your-baby

It would be interesting to apply some of the understanding about MRSA to that of the higher rate of infectious diseases related to sanitation in our region. Inadequate clean water supplies are part, but not all, of the problem suggested by the recently published study. The region focussed on in the research is also served by just one health corporation which in the past, at least, has used antibiotics freely.

  • Increased Health Risk Associated with Lack of In-home Running Water
    http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/2008/r080401.htm
  • CDC STUDY: Villages that have to haul water have higher illness rates 2008
    http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/363026.html
  • Alaska study links bad plumbing, disease. Published: Feb. 28, 2006 http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Business/2006/02/27/alaska_study_links_bad_plumbing_disease/7842/

Also,

  • Staph. aureus and MRSA in Alaska
  • It’s not just steambaths and high school wrestling mats. As a couple of people have found in Bethel, even bumping a knee can be dangerous.

  • http://tundramedicinedreams.blogspot.com/2006/11/steambath-boil.html
  • http://tundramedicinedreams.blogspot.com/2006/09/boils-101-workshop-for-health-aides.html

Medical photos from DermNet of Cellulitis
Furuncles Carbuncles (boils)
Staphylococcal Folliculitis (boils)


Site Search Tags: MRSA, staph, Maryn+McKenna, evolution, antibiotic, resistance, superbug, handwashing, hygiene, hospital, antimicrobial, disinfect, epidemiology, environment, rural+health, Bethel, CDC, lung, ADN.com, steam+bath, Yukon+Kuskokwim, staph, septicemia, blood+poisoning, boils

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Jesse Lee Home, Alaska and the pandemic of 1919

23 Saturday Feb 2008

Posted by mpb in demography, H5N1, history, preparedness, questions for other students, schoolchildren

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It is important that we understand how we coped in the past with pandemics in order to learn what is important to us as a people and to cope with future disasters. The Spanish Flu or world influenza pandemic of 1918 didn’t devastate Alaska until 1919. See related posts here

  • Alaska History reading list
  • Alaska and Eskimo data in 1920 British report
  • Alaska history books
  • Cangerlaagpiit (Epidemics) historical lessons
  • Excerpts hearings on Alaska influenza devastation
  • Flu history and research database
  • Influenza in Alaska 1919 Hearings
  • Letters from 1918 SW Alaska British Columbia
  • More historical pandemic resources (Michigan archives)
  • More historical resources (Brevig Mission)
  • New historic pandemic resources available
  • The National Archives: Influenza Epidemic of 1918
  • Timeline of Human Flu Pandemics
  • What he knew in 1918 could save millions of lives today
  • More history to follow up
  • Historical analyses help plan for future pandemics

There are some written records, but many histories have yet to be written. Fortunately, Raymond L Hudson has recently published a history of the Jesse Lee Home. This was an Alaska orphanage set up, like so many, to care for children orphaned by illnesses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Jesse Lee Home was originally established in Unalaska/Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands. See Where can one hear both verses of state song? .

In an editorial, the Anchorage Daily News noted,

The Jesse Lee Home occupies a special place in Alaska history: It is the birthplace of Alaska’s flag. Thirteen-year-old Benny Benson lived at Jesse Lee when he entered a schoolchildren’s contest to design a territorial flag in 1927. His design won, and the first place it flew as Alaska’s official flag was the Jesse Lee Home.

Beyond the Benson connection, the Jesse Lee Home has a special meaning to Alaska Natives. Early in the 20th century, epidemics ravaged many Native areas and left behind many orphans. The Jesse Lee Home, which moved from Unalaska to Seward in 1925, sheltered and raised many of the youngsters left behind.

The chapter is kindly reprinted by permission, all rights reserved. Raymond L. Hudson 2007 Family After All: Alaska’s Jesse Lee Home, Vol. I, Unalaska, 1889-1925. Walnut Creek, CA: Hardscratch Press. ISBN 978-0-9789979-0-8. (www.hardscratchpress.com)
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Chapter 30 The Pandemic of 1919

By the time World War I ended with the signing of the armistice on Nov. 11, 1918, an influenza epidemic had crossed the United States and arrived on the west coast. In two years this pandemic would claim 50 million victims worldwide, including 675,000 Americans. Thousands of revelers in San Francisco wore protective face masks as they danced in the streets to celebrate the peace. Officials in Alaska were understandably worried. At Unalaska the dance halls and pool rooms were closed. Sailors were not allowed ashore.

The winter was stormy, but the general health of the people at Unalaska remained good. By spring, the threat seemed to have passed and life returned to normal. Dr. Newhall made a slightly ironic list of things to be thankful for: the local boys who had served in the war were unharmed; the flu had spared the village; snow was only five feet deep between the two Jesse Lee Home buildings; it was too stormy to dig clams, but plenty of clams were still waiting on the beach; the store was out of white sugar and table salt, but soft coal was only $25 a ton.

As May drew to a close, the weather cleared. The U.S.S. Saturn was in port to service the Navy radio station. Father Khotovitskii returned from visiting one of the outlying villages. Then on Friday, May 23, people began falling ill [1]. The speed with which the flu permeated the village was phenomenal. By Monday the influenza was epidemic, and the commanding officer of the Saturn wired Captain F.E. Dodge on the Coast Guard cutter Unalga anchored in Seredka Bay on Akun Island [2]. As Dodge took the Unalga toward Unalaska, a wire came from Dr. Linus H. French at the Kanakanak Hospital that the entire Bristol Bay region was being ravaged by influenza. On anchoring at Unalaska and inspecting the village, Dodge decided to remain at Unalaska. He wired Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, the governor of Alaska, and Dr. French about his decision.

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More historical pandemic resources (Michigan archives)

09 Friday Nov 2007

Posted by mpb in H5N1, history

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from the great Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2007.
http://scout.wisc.edu/

The 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive [pdf]
http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/chm/influenza/index.htm

Researchers and scholars looking at historical pandemics frequently study the communities that were strongly affected by these various occurrences.

However, this fascinating digital archive from the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School looks at seven communities during the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic that experienced low rates of influenza during this period. Drawing on the expertise of a team of scholars, they decided to focus their efforts on places such as the San Francisco Naval Training Station and Bryn Mawr College. Visitors can click on any of the seven communities to read an extended essay about each location, and they can then look over dozens of primary sources from the period. These sources include internal planning reports, newspaper articles, and other items. Overall, this collection is a tremendous find, and is one that should serve as an inspiration to other institutions with similar interests. [KMG]

  • New historic pandemic resources available
  • What he knew in 1918 could save millions of lives today
  • The National Archives: Influenza Epidemic of 1918
  • Letters from 1918 SW Alaska British Columbia
  • Cangerlaagpiit (Epidemics) — historical lessons
  • More historical resources (Brevig Mission)
  • 1918 pandemic in Polynesia and Fiji (small island developing states)
  • Alaska and Eskimo data in 1920 British report
  • Excerpts hearings on Alaska influenza devastation
  • Influenza in Alaska 1919 Hearings
  • Flu history and research database
  • more history to follow up
  • Flu history in the South Pacific
  • Alaska history books
  • Alaska History reading list
  • CBC and CDC backgrounds on previous pandemics

Site Search Tags: 1918, pandemic, Spanish+flu, archives, Michigan, Scout+Report

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Table of Contents

Part I is oldest entries first.
Part II is alphabetical order.
Part III is popularity order.

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Most popular in 2007, 2008 YKWP (boring post)

13 Sunday Jul 2008

Posted by mpb in blogging

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[This is a housekeeping entry.]

I suspect many readers visit for specific posts and others are using feed readers for posts and comments. While the blog format is very flexible for information and discussion it’s technical restrictions are a little challenging for me to keep folks up to date on revisions and to highlight other posts of possible interest.

Index or Contents posts like this one [such as the alphabetical listing or the reverse chronological listing] will be cross-indexed on the Table of Contents page. Because it is a regular post, feed readers will be notified.

“Popular posts” is one such tool provided by WordPress.com. I doubt that it is very accurate for actual readers but the relative rankings provide an alternative way to find items of interest. I wish there was a way to get the full set of data they collect, especially for the referrers (see http://cerebraloddjobs.edublogs.org/2006/09/30/referrers-in-edublogs/), to see what it is that people are looking for. This would help to revise information or add new information [so would reader comments and queries]. Unfortunately,WP.com don’t have a consistent way to present this data to blog administrators (asking for daily referrers gives a very different set of information than getting the weekly or yearly referrers. Same data but the presentation to the human at this end is patchy.) Notice how the titles are truncated, for example.

The ranking for 2007 is given first and then for 2008 (up to July 12)
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