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The Office of Campus Emergency Planning continues to provide faculty, staff, students and their parents with information related to emergency preparedness during the seasonal flu periods and the current H1N1 pandemic.
For updated information regarding seasonal flu and H1N1 pandemic preparedness, please visit:
- McKinley Health Center on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus
- Champaign-Urbana Public Health District’s homepage
- Department of Health and Human Services' Pandemic Flu Planning Checklist for Individuals and Families
- Centers for Disease Control homepage
Good personal hygiene habits can make a significant difference in reducing the possibility of contracting seasonal flu and/or the H1N1 virus.
The following hygiene habits should be followed by everyone during the recent H1N1 pandemic:
- Wash hands frequently with soap and water or use alcohol-based hand cleaner when soap and water are not available.
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth.
- People who are sick with an influenza-like illness (ILI) (fever, sore throat, body aches, headaches, chills, fatigue, vomiting and diarrhea) should stay home and minimize contact with others, including avoiding travel until they are absent of a fever for 24 hours without the benefit of fever reducing medications.
- Avoid close contact (i.e. being within about 6 feet) with persons with ILI.