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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Foot-long baby croc causes scare in the air

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Published July 31, 2009 at 11:24 a.m.

As the swine flu scare fades, Miami International Airport and 18 other major American airports have been lined up to handle a future pandemic that could require them to quarantine international flight ...

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Swine flu keeps Orange County men's jail under quarantine

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Published July 29, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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The original closure was ordered Friday evening after five inmates had been infected. Since then, others have contracted the virus, a county health agency said ... Orange County men's jail will remain closed today as part of a continuing, temporary quarantine. The closure was ordered after five inmates were infected with swine flu last week and more were diagnosed over the weekend, officials said ...

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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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Swine Flu Shuts Down Philippines Government For 5 Days

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Published June 23, 2009 at 4:55 p.m.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippine House of Representatives suspended operations for five days after news that the country's first H1N1 flu-related fatality worked at the legislature. Australia reported its second swine flu-related death, the third for the Asia-Pacific region ... Hong Kong elementary schools and kindergartens cut the school year short, and Malaysia shuttered another school in efforts to contain the spread of the pandemic flu virus ... Philippine House Speaker Prospero

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Travelers to China risk 'random' quarantine

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Published June 20, 2009 at 2:32 a.m.
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Travelers to China who display flu-like symptoms may be randomly quarantined over concerns of the swine flu virus, the U.S. State Department warned ...

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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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China, WHO Downplay Quarantine Controversy With Mexico

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Published May 5, 2009 at 9:51 a.m.
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Following its accusation of China's "discrimination" against its citizens during attempts to contain the far-reaching A (H1N1) influenza, the Mexican government sent a plane early last night to bring home any of its citizens who don't wish to stay in China ... More on Swine Flu ...

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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.