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Overview An informed and prepared public is essential to minimizing the health effects of a pandemic and the resulting consequences to society. Learn important health and safety information concerning pandemic influenza, with material targeted for specific groups such as families, travelers, workers, communities, and health professionals.
For Families - Preparing For Pandemic Influenza — What You Can Do
Learn steps that communities, businesses, and individuals can take to prepare for pandemic flu. - Individuals & Families Checklist and Planning Guide
Get a planning checklist, fill-in sheets for family health information and emergency contact information, and an 18-page planning guide.
Find answers to questions about food safety and risk of infection from infected poultry.
Receive guidance on travel, food preparation, and what to do if you have been exposed to avian influenza.
Understand how to limit the spread of bird flu or avian influenza.
Discover good health habits to stop the spread of germs.
Find answers to questions about personal protective equipment and how it can prevent the spread of infection.
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對于旅游者
Familiarize yourself with guidance on travel to infected areas
Discover what to do in case you become ill in a foreign country [NOTE: This page is not about pandemic or avian flu but the content could be relevant to pandemic and avian]
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For Employers and Employees
Sets out practices for people to help reduce the risk of disease in animals and humans.
Lists more than 90 disinfectant products that are typically used by the poultry industry to disinfect their facilities against avian influenza A viruses
Read guidance for people involved in activities that could result in exposure to avian influenza-infected poultry, including flock culling, carcass disposal, and cleaning and disinfection of premises affected by avian influenza.
Learn how employers can protect workers who might become exposed to avian flu.
Discover how employers can provide a safe environment for their poultry workers.-
This document outlines critical factors in the avian influenza disposal process and includes a variety of both on- and off-site disposal/treatment options, information on cleaning and disinfecting disposal equipment, guidance on transporting infected materials for disposal, and contact information for local and state environmental, agricultural, health, and emergency response organizations.
Find how to reduce the risk of infection if you have to handle wild birds.
Provides guidance and recommendations on infection control in the workplace, including information on engineering controls, work practices, and personal protective equipment, such as respirators and surgical masks.
Planning is organized according to business-related, employee-related, and communications-related activities.
這一清單旨在幫助旅遊業經營人員為其業内經營需要，對潛在的流行性感冒做出準備。
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For Communities - Checklist for Faith-Based & Community Organizations Preparedness
Provides guidance for religious organizations, social service agencies that are faithbased, and community organizations for pandemic preparedness.
Read the President's Executive Order relating to certain influenza viruses and quarantinable communicable diseases.
Understand what the President's Executive Order says through a series of questions and answers.
Learn about the history of quarantine in the United States, and how yellow fever and cholera epidemics prompted Federal legislation that began the shift of quarantine responsibilities from local and state governments to the federal government.
U. S. Federal Laws for Control of Communicable Diseases
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For Health Professionals
Read how clinicians, epidemiologists, and other public health specialists around the world are working together to share medical information concerning human cases of H5N1.- Interim Guidance on Planning for the Use of Surgical Masks and Respirators in Health Care Settings during an Influenza Pandemic
Provides background information on influenza transmission, pathogenesis, and control. Gives recommendations on kinds of mask and respirators, as well as their proper use.
Access resources for health professionals, including training, infection control in healthcare facilities, vaccination, treatment, and health education for patients.- 家庭流感計畫指南及注意事項
Get planning checklists and guidelines for home care services, medical offices, clinics and other facilities.
This protocol is designed to simplify the previously published guidelines on specimen collection, packing, and shipment to allow for ease of use at field level and to provide the data needed to confirm the diagnosis of A(H5N1) infection as specified/described in the case definitions recently produced by WHO.
Read the transcript of a November 2004 symposium on avian influenza topics: public health impact of avian influenza, worker health and safety, food safety, and biosecurity on the farm.
Review emergency plans for Veterans Health Affairs facilities.
Find answers to questions about personal protective equipment and how it can prevent the spread of infection.
The WHO has provided infection control guidance for health care workers in health care facilities who evaluate or provide care for patients with suspected or confirmed avian influenza infection, including H5N1.
Learn the requirements to correctly ship international specimens.
Read about the Pandemic Influenza Planning Guidance for Medical Reserve Corps Units that will be used to identify specific activities MRC units can do now to prepare for a Pandemic.
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For Hunters - What Hunters Should Know About Avian Influenza
Learn about the safe preparation and cooking of game animals and the susceptibility of other animals to avian influenza.
Read a fact sheet prepared for hunters by the State of Washington.
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