Update: Interim Guidance for Management of Influenza-Like Illness aboard Commercial Aircraft during the 2009-10 Influenza Season

Published Dec. 1, 2009 at 8:18 a.m.

This document provides updated guidance regarding management of influenza-like illness (ILI) before, during and after a flight, including personal protective measures for the crew, and reporting of ILI to CDC Quarantine Stations ...

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Community Flu 1.0

Published Aug. 25, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.

CommunityFlu is a software program that simulates the spread of influenza through a model community, and the impact of a variety of potential interventions (e.g., vaccinations, school closings, wearing of face masks, patient and household isolation/self quarantine). CommunityFlu also calculates the cost, in terms of workdays lost, of influenza and the associated interventions ...

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Father of new baby quarantines himself

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Published July 23, 2009 at 5:33 p.m.

A YOUNG father has placed himself in quarantine to prevent his eight-week-old daughter catching swine flu from him ... Website designer Rick Farrell has not seen baby Beatrix for two days as he remains ...

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China Quarantines 2 Americans Over Flu

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Published May 5, 2009 at 7:30 a.m.
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The American Embassy in Beijing says four U.S. citizens are now or have been quarantined in China due to swine flu fears. A spokeswoman declined to go into specifics of the cases, but said only two of them remained in quarantine ...

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   This site was created to help deal with the H1N1 influenza flu pandemic. Flu preparation is important! You can have an immunization with the flu vaccine, you can have the flu shot; flu shots are good before you are showing flu symptoms, although the current trivalent influenza vaccine is unlikely to provide protection against the new 2009 H1N1 strain, vaccines against the new strain are being developed and could be ready as early as June 2009.

   According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in humans the symptoms of H1N1 swine flu are similar to those of influenza and of influenza-like illness in general. Symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. The 2009 outbreak has shown an increased percentage of patients reporting diarrhea and vomiting.

   Recommendations to prevent the spread of the virus among humans include using standard infection control against influenza. This includes frequent washing of hands with soap and water or with alcohol-based hand sanitizers, especially after being out in public.