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H1N1 Conference Call for Community Agencies

with Dr. Muntu Davis, Alameda County Department of Public Health and Ana-Marie Jones, CARD – Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters

• Listen to or download this MP3 audio file of the conference call held on September 22, 2009.

• • Note: This is a MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3) file. This format is accessible by a wide variety of browsers, and will usually play directly in your browser. If it does not play, then right-click for Windows (control-click for Mac OS) to download the file, then open the file in a media or music playing application, such as Windows Media Player or iTunes.

• Listen to or download this WMA audio file of the conference call held on September 22, 2009.

• • Note: This is a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file. You may be prompted to install Windows Media Player when clicking on this link. You should be able to simply click the Recommended Install button to quickly install and then listen to this file. If not, then go to this Microsoft support and install page to install Windows Media Player.

Alameda County Public Health Department

H1N1 Vaccination Clinic Schedule

Released December 03, 2009

Tools

• A list of some fast and easy things you can do for Pandemic Flu Preparedness
• Remember how to stay well by carrying CARD’s Flu Safety Tips everywhere you go! (Cut them out for portable wallet-sized cards).
  • Customize CARD’s Flu Safety Tips wallet-sized card with your agency’s name, URL, and logo.
• Carry this custom version of our CUE Card with Flu Prevention Tips!
• Spread the word with these assorted stickers: I Speak Flu Safety!

• A reminder to Please Wash Your Hands
• During flu season especially, please Don’t Spread Germs
• Also during flu season you can Make Your Desk Flu-Prepared

In English:

• “Please: wash your hands!”
• “Please: cover your cough!”
• “Please: shield your sneeze!”

PDF (add your logo) || Word (plain)

En Español:

• “¡Por favor: lávese las manos!”
• “¡Por favor: toser en la manga!”
• “¡Por favor: esturnude en su manga!”

PDF (añadir su logotipo) || Word (simple)

Sinks [Soap & Hot Water]:

• Left
• Right
• Down
• Up

Hand Sanitizer:

• Left
• Right
• Left [Spanish]
• right [Spanish]

Tissues:

• Left
• Right
• Down

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For up-to-date information on public health and flu issues, including the H1N1 “Swine” Flu, you can contact any of these hotlines:
National: CDC — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
1 (800) 232-4636
[800-CDC-INFO] State: The California Department of Public Health:
1 (888) 865-0564

County: The Alameda County Department of Public Health:

1 (888) 604-4336

Health and Wellness tips for H1N1 “Swine” Flu

Follow the advice of the CDC on staying healthy! This is taken from http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/:

What You Can Do to Stay Healthy

• Stay informed. This website will be updated regularly as information becomes available.
• Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.
• Take everyday actions to stay healthy.
  • Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
  • Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective.
  • Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.
  • Stay home if you get sick. CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
• Follow public health advice regarding school closures, avoiding crowds and other social distancing measures.
• Find healthy ways to deal with stress and anxiety.
• Call 1-800-CDC-INFO for more information.

What should I do to keep from getting the flu?

This is taken from http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/swineflu_you.htm:

Key facts about seasonal influenza vaccines
There are everyday actions that can help prevent the spread of germs that cause respiratory illnesses like influenza.

Take these everyday steps to protect your health:

• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
• Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners* are also effective.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
• Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
• If you are sick with flu-like illness, CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine.) Keep away from others as much as possible to keep from making others sick.

Other important actions that you can take are:

• Follow public health advice regarding school closures, avoiding crowds and other social distancing measures.
• Be prepared in case you get sick and need to stay home for a week or so; a supply of over-the-counter medicines, alcohol-based hand rubs,* tissues and other related items might could be useful and help avoid the need to make trips out in public while you are sick and contagious

retrieved 9/01/09 10:00 a.m.

What is the best way to keep from spreading the virus through coughing or sneezing?
This is taken from http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/swineflu_you.htm:

If you are sick with flu-like illness, CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine.)
Keep away from others as much as possible. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. Put your used tissue in the waste basket. Then, clean your hands, and do so every time you cough or sneeze.

retrieved 9/01/09 10:00 a.m.

Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs. Wash with soap and water or clean with alcohol-based hand cleaner*. CDC recommends that when you wash your hands — with soap and warm water — that you wash for 15 to 20 seconds. When soap and water are not available, alcohol-based disposable hand wipes or gel sanitizers may be used. You can find them in most supermarkets and drugstores. If using gel, rub your hands until the gel is dry. The gel doesn’t need water to work; the alcohol in it kills the germs on your hands.

retrieved 9/01/09 10:00 a.m.

Flu Season

Every year we go through a flu season, probably peaking sometime during winter. As more people around you carry the flu virus, you can take some simple steps to protect yourself and others. Practice these easy actions whether you feel sick or not — the CDC tells us that people with flu are contagious before they get any symptoms!

• Cough and/or sneeze into your elbow – not your hands or the air!
• Wash your hands with hot water and soap frequently.
• Keep bottles of hand sanitizer handy – especially when soap and water are not available.
• Keep tissues available everywhere, and give them to others!
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
• If you do have flu symptoms – STAY HOME!

Keeping these affordable, everyday items around you can go a long way to making your work or home a safer, healthier place:

• box of tissues
• mini-packets of tissues — give them to people who need them!
• alcohol-based hand sanitizer
• information to give to others — print some extra copies of CARD’s Potty Posters
• a proper trash can in a convenient place
• a simple cloth like a bandana can help provide some barrier, especially during the height of flu season

A few simple actions can also help you protect yourself and others:

• Don’t share telephones or other items exposed to your nose or mouth.
• Share basic information like this with others.
• Make it policy at work to keep everyone’s desk flu-prepared.
• Place the restroom trash cans near the door — after people wash their hands, they can use their paper towels as a barrier while opening the door, and neatly dispose of them afterward

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