Admissons


Influenza Information & Prevention

Dear Students:

With the start of the new academic year, I ask you to be proactive in preventing the spread of the flu by taking these recommended actions:

• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze or sneeze into your sleeve.
• Wash your hands often with soap and water or with hand sanitizers.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
• Stay home if you are sick.

Symptoms include:
• fever greater than 100 degrees
• body aches
• coughing
• sore throat
• respiratory congestion
• in some cases, diarrhea and vomiting

The federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) also recommends that anyone with flu-like symptoms should stay home from work or class and limit contact with others until at least 24 hours after fever symptoms have disappeared. The CDC estimates that this may take three to five days for most people.

All of us should take personal responsibility for following these guidelines.

I wish you good health and a successful academic year.

David Wilson, Chancellor
University of Wisconsin Colleges
University of Wisconsin-Extension
432 N. Lake Street
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: 608-262-3786
Fax: 608-262-6572
E-mail: david.wilson@uwex.uwc.edu
 

The following advice is from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services:

It is important that everyone remain calm, use common sense and continue simple good health practices like washing your hands. Swine influenza viruses are not transmitted by food.

If you have flu-like symptoms, stay at home and contact your physician.

Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.


Related Links:

 Marathon County Health Department

Wisconsin's Pandemic Flu Resource for the most up-to-date information in Wisconsin

Centers for Disease Control H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) information

Centers for Disease Control Travelers' Health Information

 Frequently Asked Questions Specifically for State Employees

Pandemic Flu – U.S. government site for pandemic flu information

Wisconsin Public Radio and Television stories on H1N1 (Swine) Influenza

World Health Organization H1N1 (Swine) Flu information

Posters on Hand Washing and Coughing
    Hand Washing Poster
    Cover Your Cough Poster

Student Fact Sheets:

H1N1 (Swine) Flu: Student's Guide (PDF)

Pandemic Flu: The College Response (PDF)