Citizen Preparedness Resources

 

About Swine Influenza (Flu)

Up-to-date information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the swine flu epidemic across the nation.

TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY

Taking Care of a Sick Person at Home

Resources for Parents and Caregivers

How to take care of a sick person at home, advice on talking to children, breastfeeding, and more

Pregnancy and H1N1 (Swine) Influenza

THINGS YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT THE FLU

Things You can Do

Provides a fact sheet from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on seasonal flu and what you can do to prevent it.

Interim CDC Guidance for Nonpharmaceutical Community Mitigation in Response to Human Infections with Swine Influenza (H1N1) Virus

Provides non-medical information and recommendations on how to contain and combat swine flu in your community.  

Interim Recommendations for Facemask and Respirator Use in Certain Community Settings

Provides information and recommendations on facemask and respirator use for reducing the risk and spread of swine flu.

Plan & Prepare - Pandemic Home

Provides updated federal, state, and local information from PandemicFlu.gov.

International Information

Provides up-to-date international information from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the swine flu pandemic.

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Updated Guidance for K-12 Schools for the Fall Season

CDC Guidance on School (K-12) Dismissal and Childcare Facilities

Guidance for Child Care programs, Schools, Colleges and Universities

WORKPLACE RESOURCES

Example: Dear Colleague Letter for state agencies/employers (Sept. 1, 2009)

• Letter in Microsoft Word 

• Letter in Adobe PDF 

• For State Employees: H1N1 (Swine) Flu Information for State Employees (updated 9/17/09)

OTHER RESOURCES - FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS

(You will be leaving the State of Maryland website when you "click" on one of the descriptions below)

Multi-media H1N1 general information resources in eleven other languages (Amharic, Arabic, Hmong, Karen, Khmer, Lao, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish & Vietnamese) provided by ECHO Minnesota, in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Health. http://www.echominnesota.org/H1N1

MN:

VIS, Cover your Cough, Screening Tools, etc

VT:

Flu Guides, Handwashing Posters, Preventing the Flu videos

King Co, WA:

Preventing the flu, checklists, 'Stop Germs/Stay Healthy' posters, Home with flu comic strip

http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/communicable/stopgerms/posters.aspx
http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/preparedness/pandemicflu/swineflu/resources.as
http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/languages.aspx