Information from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding health protection messages for the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak.
Recommended strategies under current flu conditions
(similar severity as in Spring/Summer 2009)
- Facilitate self-isolation of residential students with flu-like illness
- Promote self-isolation at home by non-resident students, faculty, and staff
- Considerations for high-risk students and staff
- Discourage campus visits by ill persons
- Encourage hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette of both people who are well and those that have any symptoms of flu
- Routine cleaning
- Considerations for specific student populations
Under conditions with increased severity compared to Spring/Summer 2009
- Permit high-risk students, faculty, and staff to stay home when flu is spreading in the community
- Increase social distances
- Extend the self-isolation period
- Consider suspending classes
For additional information on flu for institutions of higher education: