So what should I More Information remember about all this? • Don’t spread germs! www.pandemicflu.gov PANDEMIC • Wash your hands with U.S. Department of Health and Human soap and water. Services INFLUENZA • Cover your coughs and www.prepare.org (BIRD FLU) sneezes with your Red Cross sleeves or tissues. www.oes.ca.gov • Wash your hands after Governor’s Office of Emergency Services sneezing or coughing www.getimmunizedca.org into tissues. California Department of Health Services, • If you are sick, limit Immunization Branch contact with others. www.cdc.gov/flu • During a pandemic Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stay home and listen www.vchca.org/ph to the radio and the news for updates and Ventura County Public Health instructions. Public Information in Ventura County Remember, you hold the Dial 211 on your phone key to slowing the Dial 1-800-339-9597 on your cell phone spread of disease and helping protect the Radio KHAY 100.7 FM people you love. Use it KCAQ 104.7 FM wisely, we are counting KVTA 1520 AM You Hold the Key on you! KVEN 1450 AM Ventura County Public Health A Division of the Ventura County Health Care Agency All of us get sick sometime What Can I do? Can I plan Ahead? in our life. Maybe we catch the cold, get the flu or some You can protect • Yes, share the information other illness caused by yourself, your family in this brochure with germs. The important thing and those around you friends and family. to remember, when you are by doing the following: • You should make a two sick, is to protect your family, friends, and those week emergency kit for you around you from getting • Wash your hands often with soap and and your family. sick. warm water for 20 seconds or more. • Cover your coughs and sneezes with What should an What should I know your sleeves or tissues. about pandemic flu? emergency kit include? • If you cough or sneeze into tissue, put • Scientists believe the virus it in the trash after using it and then (germ) that is causing the wash your hands. “bird flu” can change. • If you feel sick, limit contact with • If it changes it can make others. • Canned food people sick. • Water • These sick people can cause What do I do if a pandemic is others around them to get • Prescription Medicine announced? sick. • Pain Medicine like Tylenol® • This disease can spread all • Watch the news, radio, or call the and Motrin® county to listen for instructions (See over the world. If this • Anti-Diarrhea Medicine like happens it would be called a back of brochure for list of stations) Imodium® A-D or Pepto- “pandemic” and many • Stay at home as much as you can. Bismol® people would become sick • Do not go out in public, especially • First Aid Kit and could die. crowded places, if you do not really • Portable Radio & Batteries • You must protect yourself, have to. your family, and those For more details on what to • If you go out, wear a mask. This can around you. put in the kit please visit the possibly give you some protection. Go websites printed on the back back to your home as soon as you can. of this brochure. .