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The Santa Clara County Public Health Department has prepared two documents with a great deal of information about pandemic influenza, how to avoid infection, and how to care for your loved ones at home. Your Guide to Preparing for Pandemic Influenza includes information about pandemic flu, individual and family preparedness, as well as where you can get more information. Another great SCCPHD publication, the Home Care Guide, has excellent information that will be essential for providing care at home during a pandemic flu outbreak (62 pages in color-5.7MB).
Home Care for Pandemic Flu is a two-page fact sheet prepared by the American Red Cross. It will be a place to start for those who may not want to read the 62-page Home Care Guide.
What You Can do to Prepare for Pandemic Flu is a summary of practical steps to take to reduce the probablility of becoming infected and of infecting oters shoud you become infected. While another pandemic flu outbreak is still a future event, it is useful to practice prevention in the present to avoid contractin colds and season flus or spreading them. If it is typical for your entire household to catch a cold in turn when one member gets sick, then you will do your houehold a great service by learning and implementing the practices described in these documents
Pandemic Preparedness--Reconnecting the Church and Community also provides information for dealing with pandemic flu, but also suggests many ways in which the church can be involved in reaching out to our community during an outbreak: dealing with fear and ethical issues, practical ways a church can assist, the formation of mutual-assistnace groups, planning for "social distancing,' and so forth.
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