America's North Shore Journal

In this outbreak, 76% of those who have caught the mumps are male, and 97% practice the Orthodox or Hasidic forms of Judaism.

75% of the patients where their vaccination status is known had received the recommended doses of mumps vaccine.

Valentine’s Day 2010 brings little to the hundreds of thousands of Haitians still in need due to the earthquake last month. The NGO’s are squabbling among themselves and the Haitian government is next to useless. Fundraising, at the million dollar level, is all but dead though kindhearted Americans and others worldwide continue small efforts to raise funds for Haitian relief.

The amount of money donated for aid and assistance to the people of Haiti after the earthquake by Americans, individuals, foundations and corporations totals at least $333 million. That sum is dwarfed by the money donated at this same time interval for the SE Asian tsunami and for Hurricane Katrina.

The American economy is far less robust than it was in late 2004 and 2005. Donations for Haiti relief made by Americans, individuals, foundations and corporations, are lagging the amounts raised after Hurricane Katrina and the SE Asian tsunami.

This is today’s update for fund raising numbers for the relief of the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The subtotal reflects the sum of American individual donations, corporate donations and donations from foundations.

A great deal has been happening in Haiti in the last few hours. A second set of air drops was conducted today by American C-17’s. The U.S. military has more ships and soldiers, sailors and Marines en route to provide assistance.

Here is a summary with links to longer stories on the various topics.

Port Operations [...]

We have been tracking, through the media and on the Net, the dollars that Americans are donating for the Haiti relief effort. It is not an exact science. The latest PDF file listing what we have found is at this link.

The record keeping is not intended to be complete, but only to illustrate the giving that Americans routinely do when there is a disaster. Our numbers will not tie to totals from other sources because we are just producing a snapshot of the outpouring of donations.

The United States military is makes a massive effort to make information available about the operations in Haiti. Facebook, Twitter and many, many Bloggers’ Roundtables are all a part of their strategy. We have participated in many interviews in the last few days with more to come.

Divers have examined much of the port area in Port-au-Prince. There is damage, both on the surface and underwater. It may be possible to open a portion of the port, at least to LCU’s this week. The petrol port will take longer to survey and to get into operation