As of late April there were 13 confirmed cases of Rat Lungworm disease in Hawaii. The illness is caused by a roundworm parasite that can be transmitted from rat…to slug…to human. Rat Lungworm is an extremely debilitating illness but it’s not usually fatal. Click on the following link to learn more about Rat Lungworm disease and what you ...
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Honolulu Star Advertiser, Written by William Cole, Military Writer– Nuclear arms experts think North Korea already has, or soon will have, the ability to target Hawaii with a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile with possibly about the same destructive force as the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Warnings are mounting apace with that growing threat. ...
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Hawaii’s geographic location and its high number of volcanic related earthquakes…make all islands vulnerable to both “distant and locally generated” tsunamis. Over the past 70 years 222 lives have been lost on Hawaii shores from powerful tsunamis generated by destructive earthquakes. In observance of Tsunami Awareness Month…and in an effort to get more people to create ...
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U.S. Pacific Command Detects, Tracks North Korean Missile Launch By CDR David Benham | U.S. Pacific Command | April 04, 2017 CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii — The U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) detected and tracked what we assess was a North Korean missile launch at 11:42 a.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, April 4. The launch of a ...
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April 1st kicked off Tsunami Awareness Month. April was selected as the month to observe the necessity for tsuanmi awareness because one of Hawaii’s deadliest tsunamis occurred on April 1, 1946. All year ’round, schools across the state are diligent in rehearsing evacuation drills should the unthinkable become reality. The students at Haleiwa Elementary practiced ...
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