SPH Topics: FLU

Influenza update for the SPH community:

More H1N1 Swine Flu Info

See news reports at right and these websites for updates:

Centers for Disease Control Human Swine Flu information & updates (also available in espanol)
PandemicFlu.gov
World Health Organization (WHO) influenza page
UM Health System flu page
Michigan Department of Community Health
Washtenaw County flu shot website
Lung Association flu clinic finder
UM H1N1 swine flu messages (also espanol) - Resources include the "Wash Your Hands" poster (PDF)

Video

June 2009: ABC News asked SPH's Allison Aiello to provide shorts answers to common questions about H1N1, including:

VIDEO: Prepare, Don't Panic: SPH's Allison Aiello brings up up to date on why H1N1 is different enough to cause concern among public health officials worldwide, and what individuals can do. (May 4, UM News Service, 3 min).

Public Health in the Spotlight: Communicating Health Risks

Watch archived webcast of this August 2009 UM SPH flu communications workshop for health professionals and media.

Tips for Avoiding Spread of Flu

Wash your hands often.
Keep you hands away from your eyes, nose or mouth.
Maintain healthy habits – get ample sleep and exercise, drink fluids, eat well.
Avoid contact with people if you, or they, are sick; stay at home—from work, school or other public activities—when you are ill.
Maintain increased social distance, and shield others from your coughs and sneezes by using a tissue.

H1N1 flu symptoms are similar to the symptoms of normal seasonal flu--including fever, body aches, runny nose and sore throat, and sometimes nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.

This page will be updated regularly as new information becomes available.

UM SPH Flu Experts, for Media

(For Media and Health Officials only; contact info):

Influenza: Monto, Boulton, Aiello, Montgomery, Koopman , Foxman
Disease transmission: Monto, Boulton, Aiello, Montgomery, Koopman, Wilson, Gerrard, Foxman
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (personal protective measures - mask and hand washing; social distancing - quarantine, closing of schools, travel limitations and closing of public health events): Monto, Aiello, Boulton
Antiviral resistance: Monto, Aiello, Koopman, Gerrard, Foxman
Quarantine: Monto, Aiello, Boulton, Montgomery, Jacobson (legal issues), Koopman (technical-transmission modeling)
Viruses: Monto, Aiello, Gerrard
Trauma: consequences of disaster: Galea

For SPH experts on many more topics, see the Experts List.

School of Public Health Contact Information

Terri Mellow, Director of Communications,
University of Michigan School of Public Health
1415 Washington Heights, 3542 SPH I
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
Telephone: 734-764-8094; Fax: 734-763-5455; E-mail: twm@umich.edu

If you want to be added to regular distribution for news releases, contact Laura Bailey, 734-764-1552.

Background: With or without pandemic, influenza is a serious health threat. From the first effective influenza vaccine to the FluMist nasal spray vaccine, the University of Michigan has been at the forefront of efforts to combat this viral killer. SPH experts are staying on the forefront of the swine flu and avian flu watches worldwide. More information on UM flu resources is available through the university Health System and News Service. See also Michigan Department of Community Health.

H1N1 Flu: Media Links & News Releases

Norwegian Officials Detect Swine Flu Mutation (Wash.Post Nov. 20)
What's Happening with H1N1 Flu (Nov.16 AnnArbor.com )
H1N1 National Emergency: Time for Concern, Not Panic (Oct. 24, TIME)
Flu Update from UMHS (Oct. 12, UMHS)
Lessons from 1918 Flu Pandemic for School Closure Planning (Sept. 29 UM release)
First U.S. H1N1 Vaccines Will Be Nasal Spray: CDC (Sept. 18, Reuters)
Flu on Campus: What Works, What Doesn't (Sept. 18, Reuters)
One Vaccine Shot Seen as Protective for Swine Flu (Sept. 10, NYTimes)
New Flu Cases Hit Majority of Campuses [esp in Midwest & Southeast], (Sept. 9, Chronicle of Higher Education )
UM Launches Campaign to Prevent H1N1 Influenza (Sept. 8, UM release)
Flu Campaign Waits on Vaccine (Aug. 24, Washington Post)
Doctors Warn Against 'Swine Flu Parties' (June 30, CNN)
Audio: SPH's JoLynn Montgomery Defines Pandemic (June 15, UM release)
Audio: WHO Declares Pandemic (June 11, NPR)
Define "Pandemic" (June 9, New York Times)
Congressional Briefing on H1N1 and Public Health Workforce (May 21 ASPH report)
Swine Flu Is as Severe as 1957 Pandemic, Study Shows (May 14, Bloomberg)
Early Lessons From Mexico's Swine Flu Outbreak (May 11, Science)
Julio Frenk, antiguo Ministro de Salud de México (2000–2006) sobre la gripe por el virus A (H1N1) (May 5 UM release)
The Flu Vaccine Accelerator (May 5, Forbes)
Expert [Galea] Says in Emergencies, Rational Behavior Is Invevitable (April 30 NPR.org)
Containing Flu Is Not Feasible, Specialists Say (April 30, NY Times)
WHO Raises Pandemic Alert to Level 5 (April 29 WHO release)
What You Can Do to Protect Yourself from Swine Flu (April 28, FREEP/AP)
VIDEO: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports from Mexico (April 27, CNN)

UM Flu Reference Links:

The 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic
Examining how communities in the United States coped with the 1918 flu pandemic. The Center for the History of Medicine at the UM Medical School has awebsite of primary source materials covering the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic.

Mflu.org
UM study on prevention of transmission of influenza with face masks and handwashing, funded by CDC and conducted in dorms.

Multimedia links:

Global Health Preparedness: Is It Possible?
Sept. 11, 2007, symposium webcast ponsored by the SPH Office of Practice.

Webcast: 'Human Health and Animal Disease: An Epidemiolgical Collision?'
Jan. 24, 2006 full-day symposium at the UM, sponsored by the SPH Office of Practice and Michigan Center for Public Health Preparedness.