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General Info on H1N1 Flu

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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.
• Develop a family emergency plan as a precaution. This should include storing a supply of food, medicines, facemasks, alcohol-based hand rubs and other essential supplies.
• Call 1-800-CDC-INFO for more information.

Additional Links

• PandemicFlu.gov
• FDA Press Release: FDA Authorizes Emergency Use of Influenza Medicines, Diagnostic Test in Response to Swine Flu Outbreak in Humans
• GenBank Influenza Virus Resource (swine influenza A (H1N1) sequences)
  
• WHO - Reducing excess mortality from common illnesses during a severe influenza pandemic
• WHO - Pandemic influenza preparedness and mitigation in refugee and displaced populations

• WHO - Additional WHO Influenza Guidance
• WHO - Influenza-Like Illness in the United States and Mexico
• WHO - Protocol for antiviral susceptibility testing by pyrosequencing
• WHO - Sequencing primers and protocol
• WHO - CDC protocol of realtime RTPCR for swine influenza A(H1N1)

NOTE: This is a rapidly evolving situation and current guidance and other web content may contain variations in how this new H1N1 virus of swine origin is referred to. Over the coming days and weeks, these inconsistencies will be addressed, but in the interests of meeting the agency's response goals, all guidance will remain posted and new guidance will continue to be issued.

• Links to non-federal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. These links do not constitute an endorsement of these organizations or their programs by CDC or the federal government, and none should be inferred. CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at these links.

[Cindy]

Thanks for the ping bd476.

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