6. Education is Taking the Biggest Hit Classrooms Students Virus can spread Insurance? Conspirator
7. Should we close the school? Schools should work with officials Think of the students Effect on Community Allow healthy staff in school
8. Some Disagree With Closing Students left home alone Missing Shifts Missing Meals Education
9. Is Anything Being Done For It? National Emergency Flexibility Off-Site Emergency Rooms Accommodate Possible Overflow Vaccine Pregnant Women People who live with or care for children younger than 6 months Anyone with direct patient contact Children 6 months – 4 years Children 5-18 with chronic medical conditions
10. Recommendations for Schools Stay home when sick Separate ill students from staff Hand hygiene Respiratory etiquette Routine Cleaning Early Treatment Consideration of School Dismissal abundantc
11. What Can We Do? Education Think about your health Stay Home! Get Vaccinated
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Editor's Notes
Hello, my name is Steven Spranger and in this presentation I will be discussing the H1N1 Virus.
Many of us are all feeling the effects of H1N1 one way or another. Some have had it, others know someone who has it, and others may have to find a babysitter because their child’s school has been closed due to the illness. H1N1 is now the culprit for many schools closing, sometimes for a period of a whole week. Because of this virus many people are becoming more health conscious. Now it is not uncommon to see hand sanitizer everywhere, and also more people are staying home if they are feeling any symptoms because they don’t want to infect others. This illness has created a medical scare.
H1N1 virus is a relatively new virus. This virus was first detected in people in the United States in April 2009. It is not only infecting people in the United States, but it is spreading from person to person worldwide. On June 11, 2009 the World Health Organization (WHO) signaled that a pandemic of the 2009 H1N1 Flu was underway.
This disease has became extremely prevalent. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Fluview” forty – six states reported geographically widespread influenza activity. During the week of October 11-17, 2009 there has been 4,855 positive specimens of influenza, this number is about 37.5% of all specimens tested. The most frightening fact, in my opinion is pediatric deaths have also increased with eleven total influenza deaths and nine specifically from H1N1.
This flu was once called “swine flu” because lab testing showed that many of the genes in this new virus were very similar to influenza viruses that normally occur in pigs, which are also known as swine, in North America. However, further study has shown that this new virus is very different from what normally circulates in North American pigs. It has two genes from flu viruses that normally circulate in pigs in Europe and Asia and bird genes and human genes. Scientists call this a “quadruple reassortant” virus.
