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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, just 46 percent of third-graders met the reading target, and half of seventh-graders met or exceeded the math standards. On both measures, Latino and African American children performed worse than their white and Asian peers – disparities that persisted in many of the report’s indicators of well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rates were even lower in low-income rural counties, with the exception of Shasta, where 47 percent of third-graders read at grade level. In Mendocino County, for example, 27 percent of third-graders read at grade level. By comparison, 69 percent of third-grade children in Marin County read at grade level – the highest rate in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two measures – reading in third grade and math in seventh grade – are important markers that might indicate whether a child is likely to fall behind later, Mindnich said. Student-level data show that 76 percent of high school seniors graduated on time in 2010-11, a 1 percent increase from the year prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the report’s 28 indicators showed that children living in low-income rural counties are faring the worst, in spite of making substantial gains in recent years. The trend underscores greater need, fewer resources and less access to services in rural communities, Mindnich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children’s well-being varied in Bay Area counties, all considered high-income urban areas in the report. In Marin County, for example, children’s well-being ranked in the top third of the state in 21 indicators. The county ranked first in the state in several measures, including preschool attendance (73 percent). Children in Solano County, on the other hand, ranked in the top third in five indicators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, academic performance is not the only factor in a child’s well-being, she said. The report also looked at children’s physical and emotional health – as measured by indicators such as healthy weight, health insurance coverage and risk for depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just what happens in the classroom,” Mindnich said. “We also need to think of what’s the environment we’re creating for children when they are at school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statewide \u003ca href=\"http://chks.wested.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> that gauges how engaged children feel with their schools, for example, 44 percent of students said they felt connected to their schools in the 2009-11 cycle. That’s up 47 percent from six years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the improvement was substantial, “it’s still very low,” Mindnich said. “These are things we have to start thinking about more broadly if we want to see big jumps in our graduation rates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindnich said she expects to see some improvement in children’s well-being in the coming years. She noted \u003ca href=\"http://www.edsource.org/today/2012/three-up-one-down-for-student-discipline-reforms/20428#.UHPNqaMj5ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several bills\u003c/a> to reform student discipline that Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law recently that could lead to improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re starting to pay more attention to school climate, to those intangible things that influence a child’s academic achievement,” she said. “I think it will be slow progress.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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But here are some of the most controversial or far-reaching:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vaccination\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB2109 will require parents who enroll students who have not received the required public school vaccines to get a waiver from a physician or a nurse practitioner saying they have received information about the benefits and risks of immunization.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown signed the vaccination bill amid what Assemblyman Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, called the largest national whooping cough epidemic in 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/home.php\">See the complete list of new laws and vetoes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Preventable diseases can spread not only to those who choose not to be vaccinated, but to those who can’t be immunized, including infants, cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, AIDS patients or those who are allergic to vaccines, Pan said in a \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a05/newsroom/press-releases/item/2856-governor-brown-signs-dr-pan-bill-to-increase-immunization-education-in-california\">statement\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Some great shots from around the Bay this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/PhotoWeek120928EndeavorFlyo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76970\" title=\"PhotoWeek120928EndeavorFlyo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/PhotoWeek120928EndeavorFlyo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/space-shuttle-endeavour-makes-a-bay-area-victory-lap/\">space shuttle Endeavor embarked on the Bay Area leg\u003c/a> of its farewell tour Friday, Sept. 21, en route to its final home at the California Science Museum in Los Angeles after an illustrious nine-year career with 25 trips and over 122 million miles under its belt. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_38327\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/strawberryfumigation.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38327\" title=\"strawberryfumigation\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/strawberryfumigation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: KQED QUEST\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You may have heard the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/09/04/160395259/why-organic-food-may-not-be-healthier-for-you\">NPR story\u003c/a> this morning about the meta-study from Stanford University, \u003ca href=\"http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1355685\">published in the Annals of Internal Medicine\u003c/a>, which found “no significant health benefit” to organic food. As physician R Dena Bravata, the study’s co-author, told KQED Science’s Amy Standen today, when it comes to healthfulness, “there is, in general, not a robust evidence base for the difference between organic and conventional foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2010 \u003ca href=\"http://www.icharts.net/chartchannel/chart/2010/nielsen-report-investigates-why-people-buy-organic-food\">Nielsen study\u003c/a> found 76 percent of respondents bought organic because they thought it was healthier. So this seemed to merit a call to the person who convinced me in the first place that it was okay to pay $4.00 for a head of cauliflower: local journalist, professor, and food advocate Michael Pollan, whose book \u003ca href=\"http://michaelpollan.com/books/the-omnivores-dilemma/\">The Omnivore’s Dilemma\u003c/a> was a major influence in popularizing organic and locally produced food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edited transcript…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So is this meta-study a big deal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MICHAEL POLLAN\u003c/strong>: I’m not sure it’s a big deal. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/news?ncl=d1WL7qUiKDsFoAMira4DhnOtrKdRM&q=organic+produce&lr=English®ion&ned=us&hl=en\">media’s playing it\u003c/a> as if there were something new here, but this is not new research, it’s a meta-study [a review of previously conducted research], and I’ve seen the exact same data analyzed in a very different direction. A lot of it depends on how you manage your assumptions and statistical method.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think we’re kind of erecting a straw man and then knocking it down, the straw man being that the whole point of organic food is that it’s more nutritious. The whole point of organic food is that it’s more environmentally sustainable. That’s the stronger and easier case to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true the body of research around nutrition is really equivocal, and we need to do more studies on that. But the success of organic doesn’t stand or fall on that question. This study disputes how significant the differences in antioxidant and nutrient levels are between organic and conventional food. But that’s not central to the discussion of why organic is important, which has a lot more to do with how the soil is managed and the exposure to pesticides, not just in the eater’s diet but to the farmworker. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: The meta study did find that 38 percent of conventional produce tested contained pesticide residues, compared to just 7 percent for organic produce. How important is that in and of itself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MICHAEL POLLAN\u003c/strong>: It’s very important. If you’re concerned about pesticide residues in your food, you’re much better off buying organic. The study said all these pesticide residues in conventional produce are permissible under EPA rules. They may be, but there’s a question of how adequate those rules are. Because there are questions about whether those levels are okay for children and for pregnant women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a very important study, which was mentioned in the meta study, about organophosphates and the link to various cognitive difficulties in children. 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But people should take a hard look. So much of the story depends on what do you mean by “significant health benefit?” The meta study found less pesticide residue, higher levels of anti-oxidants – plant phytochemicals thought to be important to human health; and less antibiotic-resistant microbes in organic meat. But then they say it might not be significant. I don’t think they defined signficant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Let’s say you’re a consumer standing there at your grocery store and you have a choice between an organically grown piece of produce grown far away and a conventionally grown piece grown locally. All things considered, which is the best choice?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MICHAEL POLLAN\u003c/strong>: It depends on your values. If you’re concerned about nutritional value and taste, you might find that the local food, which is more likely to have been picked when it was ripe, is better. Because any food that’s traveled a few days to get to you or been refrigerated for a long time is going to have diminished nutritional value. That argues for fresh being more important than organic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re concerned about pesticides – let’s say you’re pregnant or have young kids you’re feeding – then you might choose organic, because it will have on balance fewer pesticide residues. You may also be concerned with the welfare of the people picking and the farmers growing your produce, or you may be concerned about soil health — that would argue for organic too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tend to favor local food, whether it’s certified organic or not. Most of the local food available to us in the Bay Area, though, tends to be grown organically, even if it’s not certified. So it is possible to have it both ways. If you’re shopping at your farmers’ market, you’re getting food that’s very fresh, probably very nutritious, and probably grown without synthethic pesticides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Anything else?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MICHAEL POLLAN\u003c/strong>: I would just encourage people to educate themselves and not take headlines at face value. It’s a complicated question, and we need to a do a lot more science. The absence of proof means that we either haven’t studied it or we haven’t found it yet, it doesn’t mean we won’t. In the meantime, there’s a precautionary principle: even though the case isn’t closed on low levels of pesticides in our diet, there are very good reasons to minimize them.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>By Christina Jewett, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/calif-scientists-calls-warn-yosemite-visitors-virus-went-unheeded-17784\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California public health scientists have twice recommended in the past five years that Yosemite National Park authorities educate visitors about hantavirus, a rare disease that is linked to the deaths of two park visitors, one illness and a possible fourth this summer. Yet park officials did not warn visitors until after the disease showed up in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74818\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Yosemite1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74818\" title=\"Yosemite\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Yosemite1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yosemite (Jame Change/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a 2010 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/414390-yose-hcps-risk-assessment-tm-lodge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">risk assessment document\u003c/a>, state inspectors explicitly asked Yosemite officials to educate those staying in the tent cabins linked to the hantavirus cases about the fatal disease. The risk assessment was performed after a 54-year-old park visitor fell ill with hantavirus in 2010 after staying in the type of tent cabin inhabited by the 2012 victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Provide each cabin with information on (hantavirus),” the 2010 risk assessment recommended. “Together with the bear safety guidance, guests should be advised to minimize contact with rodents and to report signs of rodent intrusion (e.g., droppings, chewed items) to Tuolumne Meadows Lodge management.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, state vector-borne disease sector scientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/vbds/Documents/VBDSAnnualReport07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommended that Yosemite\u003c/a> “minimize risk to staff and visitors through an active prevention program that includes the following elements: education … and active rodent removal within buildings and developed areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Charles Higgins, who has been director of the public health office for the National Park Service for eight years, said he is not aware of any effort prior to this summer’s outbreak to warn tent cabin renters about the disease. He said the risk of disease transmission was thought to be low and there was potential for guests to tune out an overabundance of warning messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s always a dilemma because people have message fatigue,” Higgins said. “Their eyes glaze over, they quit paying attention to messaging. It’s a little bit of an art form on when to (issue warnings) and how to approach it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite park ranger Kristen Kosick said Yosemite staff were trained about the risks of hantavirus and how to avoid transmission. “There’d been no outreach to visitors but there had been to staff,” Kosick said. “It’s a general virus people should be aware of if they’re in Western states and outdoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Training on hantavirus is given to Yosemite employees in the spring and throughout the year, said Kari Cobb, a park ranger. She said education on the disease is mandatory for employees who open up closed buildings after each year’s thaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park authorities announced this week that they notified 1,700 people who were possibly exposed to the mouse-spread disease after staying in Curry Village tent cabins. Two people who stayed in the cabins have been reported dead. One other fell ill with a respiratory disease, and there is a possible fourth case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have found that the risk for the disease is concentrated in buildings within California’s national forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giorgio Cosentino, an East Bay microbiologist, said one of the deceased 2012 hantavirus victims is a physician and a family friend. He said even though the risk of hantavirus transmission is low, the park should have warned visitors that it existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can’t get rid of the rodent problem completely and you can’t get rid of the virus completely, the safety net includes educating visitors so if they do become ill, they can get to a hospital sooner,” Cosentino said. “That still doesn’t guarantee that they’ll live, but chances of survival are better if you get to a hospital sooner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rare but deadly disease is spread by white-bellied deer mice and most readily caught by inhaling mouse feces or urine dust inside of buildings. Symptoms begin one to six weeks after exposure and include fever, headache, muscle aches and, later, difficulty breathing. The disease kills more than a third of those infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1993, 60 cases have been reported in California, including 2000 and 2010 cases at Yosemite, and 587 in the U.S., according to the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgins said his office, in Washington, D.C., has deployed several scientists to study what gave rise to the cluster of hantavirus cases at Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are opportunities to contribute to the science, to make the effort to understand as deeply possible what the risk factors were that were so different and in the effort help everyone refine their (prevention) strategies,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicki Kramer, chief of the state vector-borne disease section of the Department of Public Health, said scientists have worked closely with Yosemite for three years to examine rodent-, tick- and flea-spread diseases. The park has trapped and tested deer mice to monitor the hantavirus problem and urged authorities to educate visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is federal land,” Kramer said. “Certainly we can make recommendations, but it’s up to Yosemite on what further steps to take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, a 54-year-old San Mateo woman reported she became ill from hantavirus after she stayed in a Yosemite tent cabin. She recovered after three days in a hospital. According to a state summary of the case, she reported seeing one or two mice in the cabin and swept the room with the broom that was provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2010 Yosemite case, state Department of Public Health scientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/vbds/Documents/VBDSAnnualReport10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">examined the Tuolumne Meadows \u003c/a>area and found rodent hiding places, such as stacked firewood, and deficiencies that would allow rodent access to cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to removal/correction of these factors, (state scientists) recommended providing staff and guests with information and supplies to safely clean and decontaminate cabins,” the 2010 report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviews by state vector-borne disease scientists show that hantavirus\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>infection, before the Curry Village cases, has tended to be isolated and spread out among rural counties such as Nevada, Mono and Inyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kosick, the Yosemite ranger, said park staff and concessioners were given a 12-page directive that details warning signs of the disease, precautionary measures to prevent infection and protective gear to wear. Kosick said park staff are now handing pamphlets to visitors informing them about hantavirus and expect to continue doing so indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Risk for the disease and prevalence in rodents is routinely monitored in California’s national forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Department of Public Health scientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18256445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published a 2008 study\u003c/a> showing that 20 percent of the deer mice in U.S. Forest Service areas tested positive for the virus, higher than the statewide rate of 12 percent of deer mice. 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"description": "By Christina Jewett, California Watch California public health scientists have twice recommended in the past five years that Yosemite National Park authorities educate visitors about hantavirus, a rare disease that is linked to the deaths of two park visitors, one illness and a possible fourth this summer. Yet park officials did not warn visitors until after the disease showed up in recent weeks. In a 2010 risk assessment document, state inspectors explicitly asked Yosemite officials to educate those staying in the tent cabins linked to the hantavirus cases about the fatal disease. The risk assessment was performed after a 54-year-old park visitor",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>By Christina Jewett, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/calif-scientists-calls-warn-yosemite-visitors-virus-went-unheeded-17784\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California public health scientists have twice recommended in the past five years that Yosemite National Park authorities educate visitors about hantavirus, a rare disease that is linked to the deaths of two park visitors, one illness and a possible fourth this summer. Yet park officials did not warn visitors until after the disease showed up in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74818\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Yosemite1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74818\" title=\"Yosemite\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Yosemite1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yosemite (Jame Change/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a 2010 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/414390-yose-hcps-risk-assessment-tm-lodge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">risk assessment document\u003c/a>, state inspectors explicitly asked Yosemite officials to educate those staying in the tent cabins linked to the hantavirus cases about the fatal disease. The risk assessment was performed after a 54-year-old park visitor fell ill with hantavirus in 2010 after staying in the type of tent cabin inhabited by the 2012 victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Provide each cabin with information on (hantavirus),” the 2010 risk assessment recommended. “Together with the bear safety guidance, guests should be advised to minimize contact with rodents and to report signs of rodent intrusion (e.g., droppings, chewed items) to Tuolumne Meadows Lodge management.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, state vector-borne disease sector scientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/vbds/Documents/VBDSAnnualReport07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommended that Yosemite\u003c/a> “minimize risk to staff and visitors through an active prevention program that includes the following elements: education … and active rodent removal within buildings and developed areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Charles Higgins, who has been director of the public health office for the National Park Service for eight years, said he is not aware of any effort prior to this summer’s outbreak to warn tent cabin renters about the disease. He said the risk of disease transmission was thought to be low and there was potential for guests to tune out an overabundance of warning messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s always a dilemma because people have message fatigue,” Higgins said. “Their eyes glaze over, they quit paying attention to messaging. It’s a little bit of an art form on when to (issue warnings) and how to approach it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite park ranger Kristen Kosick said Yosemite staff were trained about the risks of hantavirus and how to avoid transmission. “There’d been no outreach to visitors but there had been to staff,” Kosick said. “It’s a general virus people should be aware of if they’re in Western states and outdoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Training on hantavirus is given to Yosemite employees in the spring and throughout the year, said Kari Cobb, a park ranger. She said education on the disease is mandatory for employees who open up closed buildings after each year’s thaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park authorities announced this week that they notified 1,700 people who were possibly exposed to the mouse-spread disease after staying in Curry Village tent cabins. Two people who stayed in the cabins have been reported dead. One other fell ill with a respiratory disease, and there is a possible fourth case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have found that the risk for the disease is concentrated in buildings within California’s national forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giorgio Cosentino, an East Bay microbiologist, said one of the deceased 2012 hantavirus victims is a physician and a family friend. He said even though the risk of hantavirus transmission is low, the park should have warned visitors that it existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can’t get rid of the rodent problem completely and you can’t get rid of the virus completely, the safety net includes educating visitors so if they do become ill, they can get to a hospital sooner,” Cosentino said. “That still doesn’t guarantee that they’ll live, but chances of survival are better if you get to a hospital sooner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rare but deadly disease is spread by white-bellied deer mice and most readily caught by inhaling mouse feces or urine dust inside of buildings. Symptoms begin one to six weeks after exposure and include fever, headache, muscle aches and, later, difficulty breathing. The disease kills more than a third of those infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1993, 60 cases have been reported in California, including 2000 and 2010 cases at Yosemite, and 587 in the U.S., according to the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgins said his office, in Washington, D.C., has deployed several scientists to study what gave rise to the cluster of hantavirus cases at Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are opportunities to contribute to the science, to make the effort to understand as deeply possible what the risk factors were that were so different and in the effort help everyone refine their (prevention) strategies,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicki Kramer, chief of the state vector-borne disease section of the Department of Public Health, said scientists have worked closely with Yosemite for three years to examine rodent-, tick- and flea-spread diseases. The park has trapped and tested deer mice to monitor the hantavirus problem and urged authorities to educate visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is federal land,” Kramer said. “Certainly we can make recommendations, but it’s up to Yosemite on what further steps to take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, a 54-year-old San Mateo woman reported she became ill from hantavirus after she stayed in a Yosemite tent cabin. She recovered after three days in a hospital. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/profiles/aaron-glantz/\" rel=\"author\">Aaron Glantz\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/profiles/shane-shifflett/\" rel=\"author\">Shane Shifflett\u003c/a>, The Bay Citizen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a Northern California veteran who has waited a year for a decision on a war-related disability claim, you might consider a move to South Dakota – where the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs typically responds in less than half the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74697\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/VeteranMap-Adam_131.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74697\" title=\"VeteranMap-Adam_13\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/VeteranMap-Adam_131-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"161\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Fields said he survived multiple vehicle rollovers and sustained three concussions in Iraq. (Michael Short/The Bay Citizen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Returning home from Afghanistan to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago or Atlanta? Veterans who live in Lincoln, Neb., and Fargo, N.D., get their benefits faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The geographic inequity of VA wait times is fully detailed for the first time in an analysis by The Bay Citizen and its parent organization, the Center for Investigative Reporting. Simply put: Veterans in sparsely populated states often encounter quick resolution of their compensation claims for problems ranging from back injuries to post-traumatic stress disorder while those in metropolitan areas languish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, veterans who file claims with any of the VA’s three regional offices – in Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego – wait more than nine months on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a slap in the face,” said Adam Fields, a former Marine from Modesto, who has been waiting since November 2010 for a ruling on his claim for benefits for traumatic brain injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his two tours in Iraq, Fields said he survived multiple vehicle rollovers and sustained three concussions, which have contributed to persistent short-term memory loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I get in the car, and I forget where I’m going,” said Fields, who supports his wife and 5-year-old son by driving a scrap metal truck in Stockton, two hours from the closest VA hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the VA approved my claim, I could afford to take time off to get regular treatment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/veterans/interactive/map-disabled-vets-stuck-backlog-limbo/\">\u003cstrong>Map: Disabled vets stuck in backlog limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Bay Citizen’s city-by-city data populates an online interactive map that will automatically update weekly, documenting in real time the progress of recent VA promises to improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, change has headed in the wrong direction, despite increased media and political scrutiny. Nationwide, the VA took an average of more than eight months to process a claim in June – about 50 percent longer than the year before. Veterans in New York and North Texas waited the longest, at more than a year on average. Those who appeal a denied claim wait 3½ years for an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why the dramatic differences? A VA spokesman did not respond to numerous email and telephone inquiries seeking an explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delays have increased despite a new $300 million computer system and 3,300 claims processors hired since 2010 – 765 of them for additional positions. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has pledged to eliminate the claims backlog by 2015, but VA data shows the number of veterans waiting for a decision is growing – to more than 907,000 as of July 30, with 832,000 of them waiting for disability or survivor benefits, while thousands more seek a pension or GI Bill education benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, the computer system has been launched at just four of the VA’s regional offices, none of them in California. The vast majority of claims still are in paper file folders, which must be physically passed from one claims representative to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have ever walked into one of our regional offices, you would see stacks and stacks of paper,” Allison Hickey, the agency’s undersecretary for benefits, told reporters July 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2015, Hickey said, all 58 offices will be computerized. In the meantime, new claims are arriving more quickly than the backlog is being cleared, so without dramatic improvement, disabled veterans will face even longer wait times in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the current rate, for example, it would take the VA three years to resolve every disability claim pending in San Diego – the office with the worst combination of backlog and clearance rate in June – if not a single additional claim were filed. In July, Los Angeles stepped into that worst overall slot.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>In California, veterans who file claims with any of the VA’s three regional offices – in Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego – wait more than nine months on average.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That scenario won’t occur. In 2011, 1.3 million veterans filed claims for benefits, according to VA data, a combination of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and aging Vietnam veterans, many with new claims based on illnesses the government now acknowledges stem from Agent Orange exposure. Since 2010, the agency has seen the number of new claims filed annually increase by 48 percent, while the number of claims representatives has increased by 5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Improvements in battlefield medicine mean Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are more likely to survive multiple deployments, the VA said in a statement, and as a result, veterans “are returning with triple the medical issues of previous generations, driving the complexity of these claims and their associated workload to an all-time high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veterans’ advocates say that makes the growing VA delays even more disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing people break and snap like we’ve never seen before,” said Shad Meshad, a Vietnam veteran and former combat medic who heads up the Los Angeles-based National Veterans Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When soldiers come home from two, three or four tours with post traumatic stress disorder and hit these kinds of walls, they can get frustrated and just give up,” Meshad said. Last May, a federal appeals court in San Francisco found 18 veterans commit suicide every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Identifying the root of the delays is complicated by political finger-pointing. Democrats and many veterans’ advocates argue that the VA failed to prepare for an onslaught of wounded veterans after the Bush administration began the war in Iraq in 2003. Republicans counter that the backlog of disability claims has exploded under President Barack Obama and has continued to worsen in recent months, despite additional scrutiny from the media and members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans, including U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa of California, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, recently have seized on the issue, holding hearings and demanding results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, VA officials have said they are about to turn things around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are already implementing our plan and are getting good early results,” Hickey told a House oversight subcommittee July 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the ground, there is little evidence that those steps are making a difference so far. Average wait times at all four offices equipped with the new computer system have increased. At three of the four offices, the number of pending claims also has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Salt Lake City, which has the new system, the average wait time has increased to 236 days – and nearly 20,000 veterans are waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of this is about respect,” said Dottie Guy, a San Francisco veteran who has waited since March 2011 for a decision on her claim related to PTSD, which began after a tour as a prison guard in Baghdad, and a degenerative ankle injury suffered during basic training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we want is recognition that this is something that happened to you,” Guy said. “I wasn’t asked to go to Iraq, I was told. And now I am asking them to acknowledge that what they forced me to do jeopardized my physical health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, The Bay Citizen revealed that 80 percent of veterans served by the VA’s Oakland office were waiting more than 125 days for an answer on benefits. That prompted U.S. Rep. Jerry McNerney, a Democrat from California who sits on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, to write a letter to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki. The letter, signed by 15 colleagues, demanded that Shinseki “send immediate help” to the Oakland office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency responded by shuttering the Oakland office for four weeks in June while providing “challenge training” to claims processors. In an email, VA spokesman Josh Taylor said veterans served by the Oakland office – those living between Bakersfield and the Oregon border – “were not adversely impacted by this training effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the data tells a different story. Four months after The Bay Citizen’s story and pressure from Congress, 90 percent of claims filed in Oakland have been pending at least four months – the highest proportion in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inspector general’s report released in May also revealed that staff at the VA’s Oakland office failed to process 39 percent of claims correctly and did not inform veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan that they are entitled to free mental health care. One disability claim, the inspector general found, had languished for 8½ years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate reports also released in May, the inspector general found the VA made mistakes on 53 percent of claims at the San Diego office and 71 percent of claims at the Los Angeles office.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We voted for these additional resources, we expected to see results; we’re not seeing them,” McNerney said. “I used to take them at their word. 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Nationwide, the VA took an average of more than eight months to process a claim in June – about 50 percent longer than the year before. Veterans in New York and North Texas waited the longest, at more than a year on average. Those who appeal a denied claim wait 3½ years for an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why the dramatic differences? A VA spokesman did not respond to numerous email and telephone inquiries seeking an explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delays have increased despite a new $300 million computer system and 3,300 claims processors hired since 2010 – 765 of them for additional positions. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has pledged to eliminate the claims backlog by 2015, but VA data shows the number of veterans waiting for a decision is growing – to more than 907,000 as of July 30, with 832,000 of them waiting for disability or survivor benefits, while thousands more seek a pension or GI Bill education benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, the computer system has been launched at just four of the VA’s regional offices, none of them in California. The vast majority of claims still are in paper file folders, which must be physically passed from one claims representative to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have ever walked into one of our regional offices, you would see stacks and stacks of paper,” Allison Hickey, the agency’s undersecretary for benefits, told reporters July 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2015, Hickey said, all 58 offices will be computerized. In the meantime, new claims are arriving more quickly than the backlog is being cleared, so without dramatic improvement, disabled veterans will face even longer wait times in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the current rate, for example, it would take the VA three years to resolve every disability claim pending in San Diego – the office with the worst combination of backlog and clearance rate in June – if not a single additional claim were filed. In July, Los Angeles stepped into that worst overall slot.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>In California, veterans who file claims with any of the VA’s three regional offices – in Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego – wait more than nine months on average.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That scenario won’t occur. In 2011, 1.3 million veterans filed claims for benefits, according to VA data, a combination of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and aging Vietnam veterans, many with new claims based on illnesses the government now acknowledges stem from Agent Orange exposure. Since 2010, the agency has seen the number of new claims filed annually increase by 48 percent, while the number of claims representatives has increased by 5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Improvements in battlefield medicine mean Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are more likely to survive multiple deployments, the VA said in a statement, and as a result, veterans “are returning with triple the medical issues of previous generations, driving the complexity of these claims and their associated workload to an all-time high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veterans’ advocates say that makes the growing VA delays even more disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing people break and snap like we’ve never seen before,” said Shad Meshad, a Vietnam veteran and former combat medic who heads up the Los Angeles-based National Veterans Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When soldiers come home from two, three or four tours with post traumatic stress disorder and hit these kinds of walls, they can get frustrated and just give up,” Meshad said. 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At three of the four offices, the number of pending claims also has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Salt Lake City, which has the new system, the average wait time has increased to 236 days – and nearly 20,000 veterans are waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of this is about respect,” said Dottie Guy, a San Francisco veteran who has waited since March 2011 for a decision on her claim related to PTSD, which began after a tour as a prison guard in Baghdad, and a degenerative ankle injury suffered during basic training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we want is recognition that this is something that happened to you,” Guy said. “I wasn’t asked to go to Iraq, I was told. And now I am asking them to acknowledge that what they forced me to do jeopardized my physical health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, The Bay Citizen revealed that 80 percent of veterans served by the VA’s Oakland office were waiting more than 125 days for an answer on benefits. That prompted U.S. Rep. 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