My son, a grade one (1) elementary student, came home yesterday after school asking me if lola is sick of H1N1 after I told him “be good because lola is sick.” In the news, the video scandals of Hayden Kho and Katrina Halili is already replaced with news on H1N1 virus and today’s rally against the sensational issue on the railroaded Constitutional Assembly (ConAss) passage.
For the nation already frantic about the scare of the H1N1, good news to us all. The United Nation’s (UN) already came out with a comprehensive booklet discussing in full everything we need to know about the influenza virus called H1N1, otherwise known as Swine Flu. Here are the topics inside the booklet:
- What you need to know about preventing and diagnosing influenza
- Are you at risk?
- How do you catch influenza?
- How do you know you have influenza?
- How do you reduce your risk of contracting influenza?
- What you need to know in the event of a pandemic?
- How will the UN help you?
- What should you do to prepare?
- What is “social distancing?”
- How do you reduce the chances of spreading influenza?
- How do you care for yourself and others?
- What you should do if you perform a critical function?
- How do you reduce risk of exposure during transport to work?
- When should you stay home?
- What you should stockpile at home?
- What items should you stockpile to last six weeks?
- How should food items be stored?
- What medical items should be stored?
- What measures you should take if traveling?
- What should you do if you may have been exposed?
- Suggested hand hygiene techniques
The booklet is a 33-page downloadable file in Adobe Acrobat Reader format. If you want to have a copy of this file, you may download it for free here. The Department of Health (DOH) already conceded on their previous strategy “contact tracing” which objective is to trace everyone who’s been in contact with A H1N1 cases to control the spread of the disease. Apparently, the method is not applicable anymore since more and more cases of H1N1 are showing up.
The fight now is to prevent everyone from catching the virus by being extra careful and by being hygienic. Fortunately, the flu virus that hits the Philippines is not the worse kind that befell other countries. The H1N1 virus which entered the country is the type that can be remedied and the patient just need to rest and quarantine himself/herself so as not to infect the other members of the family.
Let us download this file, read it and remember the precautions so we can all stay safe and hopefully, the spread of the disease will soon stop. God bless everyone. 
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