FACT SHEET Plague and Pets

MEDIA ADVISORY

Kentucky’s Pandemic Flu Response Daily Audio LIVE News Briefing

For Immediate Release: [Insert day, month, XX, 200X]

Contact: Gwenda Bond or Barbara Fox (502) 564-6786

WHO: XXX [Insert salutation (e.g., Dr.) name of person, title, organization] XXX [Insert name of person, title, organization] XXX [Insert name of person, title, organization] XXX [Insert name of person, title, organization] Example: Dr. Mark Birdwhistell, Secretary, Cabinet for Health and Family Services

WHAT: XXX [Insert name of event]

WHEN: XXX [Insert day, month XX, 200X, time XX:XX a.m./p.m.] (This meeting is open to the press.) Media availability at XXX [Insert time XX:XX a.m./p.m. EDT/CDT/EST/CST]

BACKGROUND: Kentucky health officials [insert names] will discuss pandemic planning and response concerns. Questions will be answered about the government’s plan, [insert situation-specific issue], and what residents can do to prepare themselves and assist with official response efforts.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: The Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) will conduct an audio news briefing about plans that Kentucky has developed in response to recent national pandemic flu activity [or insert situation-specific activities] via live telephone conference at [Insert time XX:XX a.m./p.m. (EDT/CDT/EST/CST)] today.

You may connect to the conference by following these instructions. A touch-tone phone is required to participate.  Dial 1-XXX-XXX-XXXX. When prompted, enter the pass code XXX [insert ###]. Enter an asterisk (*) before and after the pass code number.  Upon connecting to the conference, you might hear music, even before the first voice prompt.  You may input the pass code at any time, even before the voice prompt.

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Kentucky’s Pandemic Flu Response Daily Audio LIVE News Briefing CHFS/Month, Day, 2006

 If you cannot connect to the conference after repeated attempts, please call 1-XXX- XXX-XXXX for assistance.  Unless you are speaking, please keep your telephone on “mute” to minimize background noise and distractions.  If you do not have a mute button on your phone, you may XXX [insert alternate instructions].  For more information on pandemic flu, the public can call the Kentucky Regional Poison Center (KRPC) hotline at 1-800-222-1222 or visit the Kentucky DPH Web site at: http://www.healthalerts.ky.gov.  The official U.S. government Web site for information on pandemic flu and avian influenza is http://www.pandemicflu.gov.