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H1N1 (Swine) Flu - Symptoms and Precautions

Submitted by webmaster on Tue, 2009-05-05 10:32.

Symptoms of H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)

  •  Review your institutions plans for responding to a public health emergency and make sure they are up to date.
  •  Know local/state plans for institutions of higher education in the event of a mild or severe disease outbreak.
  •  Ask your campus health center to develop and implement a system to track and report (to the local health department) influenza-like illness (an illness with at least fever and sore throat or cough) among students.
  • Persons with influenza-like-illness should consult their physician and the institution should consult with their local or state health department for recommendations on identifying persons with H1N1 flu and ways to prevent spread of this virus.
  • Institutions of higher education should promote everyday preventive actions for students and staff:
    1) Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.
    2) Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
    3) Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
    4) Avoid close contact with sick people.
    5) Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
    6) If you get influenza-like illness symptoms, stay home from work or school except to seek medical care and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
  • Monitor the your local and state health departments and follow local health department advice about possible closure of colleges and universities
  • Contact your local public health department if you have questions or suspected cases.


Institutions of higher education can help protect the health of their staff and their students by calling attention to the every day preventive actions that can be taken to prevent the spread of influenza. (Please consider posting or distributing the everyday actions to prevent the spread of influenza attached with this memo across campus including residential dorms).  Read the attached,

Advice on the use of masks-WHO.pdf

Vaccines for the new Influenza A (H1N1).pdf

 

Source: CDC,WHO