Avian Bird Flu Pandemic

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Avian Bird FluPandemic

• A Guide to Understanding

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Is It a Cold Or Flu?
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Know the Difference

• Cold caused by a virus
• infection of the nose, throat, head and chest
  
• symptoms that last 3-5 days
• Flu (influenza) caused by a virus
• infection of the nose throat, head and chest
• symptoms may last 7-10 days
• full recovery may take up to 2 weeks.

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Sign and Symptoms

• Common Cold
• Stuffy Nose
• Sore Throat
• Sneezing
• Cough

Flu Tiredness Fever Headache
Major aches/ pains Stuffy Nose Sore throat
Bad cough
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Test Your Knowledge

• True or False
• The flu is a more serious illness than a common
  cold.
• T or F
• Flu symptoms include fever, headache, muscle
  aches.
• T or F

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Answers

• The flu is a more serious illness than a
  common cold.
• True
• Flu symptoms include fever, headache, muscle
  aches.
• True

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Prevention

• Wash your hands often for 20 seconds in warm,
  soapy water
• Avoid people with colds
• Sneeze or cough into tissues and then throw them
  away.
• Clean surfaces you touch with germ-killing
  disinfectants like Clorox wipes
• Avoid touching your nose, eyes, or mouth
• Get a flu shot

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WHY THE TALK ABOUT FLU?
KNOW THE FACTS
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• There is a serious FLU named
• Avian Influenza,
• better known as
• Bird Flu.

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Avian Influenza

• It is contagious.
• It is caused by viruses that infect birds,
  poultry, and sometimes pigs.
• It can be spread to humans from poultry infected
  by birds.

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What is a pandemic?

• It is a worldwide outbreak of flu.
• It spreads rapidly to people through sneezing
  and coughing.

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ALERT

• If you have ANY cold or flu symptoms during an
  outbreak of Avian Bird Flu, contact your Health
  Care Provider, immediately

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How are people infected?

• People are infected through direct contact
  from contaminated poultry with the Avian Flu
  virus.

However
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• It is suspected that a family in Indonesia
• transmitted the virus to each other.
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• There is no evidence that eating poultry or
  eggs cooked properly can cause
• Bird Flu.

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Bird Flu Symptoms

• The symptoms of Bird Flu in people tend to be
  similar to the typical flu symptoms fever,
  cough, sore throat, muscle aches.

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How can the Bird Flu be prevented?

• There are no vaccines that protect against Bird
  Flu.
• The yearly flu shots have no protection
  against Bird Flu.

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You Can

• Thoroughly wash your hands with soap and
  warm water after contact with potentially
  contaminated surfaces.
• Wash your hands frequently if you're around
  someone who is sick.

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• Wash your hands, frequently, especially if you
  touch surfaces that many people touch, such as
  elevator buttons, keyboards or door handles.

You Can
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• When handwashing is not possible
• use alcohol-based hand sanitizers, which
  don't require the use of water.
• The alcohol content should be 62 or higher.

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You Can..

• Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when
  coughing or sneezing.

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• Discard tissues after single use inappropriate
  waste receptacles and wash hands afterwards.

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Test Your Knowledge True or False

• Handwashing and sneezing into tissue will reduce
  your
• chance of getting sick. T or F
• You should call your Health Care Provider for a
  runny
• nose and headache. T or
  F
• You should call your Health Care Provider for
  headache
• with stiff neck. T or F
• You should call your Health Care Provider for flu
• symptoms lasting 2 weeks or more. T or F

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Answers

• Handwashing and sneezing into tissue will reduce
  your
• chance of getting sick. True
• You should call your Health Care Provider for a
  runny
• nose and headache. False
• You should call your Health Care Provider for
  headache
• with stiff neck. True
• You should call your Health Care Provider for flu
• symptoms lasting 2 weeks or more. True

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You Can......

• Observe food safety precautions, do not eat
  uncooked or undercooked poultry or poultry
  products.

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• If traveling to known risk areas, take
  precautions to avoid any contact with chickens,
  ducks, geese, pigeons, turkeys, quail, or any
  wild birds.
• Wash your hands frequently.
• Locate risk areas http//www.who.int

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• Observe your health, closely, especially
• 10 days after you leave a known risk area.
• Locate risk areas http//www.who.int
  

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ALERT

• If you develop flu symptoms, including a fever,
  cough and body aches, and have recently traveled
  to a part of the world where Bird Flu occurs
  contact your Health Care Provider, immediately.

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ALERT In the event there is an outbreak of
Avian Bird Flu on this campus, You may be
instructed to use Personal Protective Equipment
(PPE)
PPE includes gloves, gowns and masks.
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• ALERT
• Should an outbreak of Avian Bird Flu happen,
  please refer to the official WSSU website for all
  
• information and directives.
• http//www.wssu.edu

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For More Informationlog onto.

• http//www.wssu.edu
• http//www.who.int
• http//www.cdc.gov

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