Bird Flu Yada Yada Yada, What Mothers &amp; Caregivers Need To Do

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Top 2. Feb 13, 2006 6:51 PM

» KMK57 - Doctor Mom's Bird Flu Preparedness Book

In response to Avian "Bird" Flu posted by KMK57:

DOCTOR MOM'S BIRD FLU BOOK

http://kimberferris.blogspot.com English
http://kimberferris2.blogspot.com Espanol

Answers the question, What do I do to protect my family and many more. It's a free online resource for Mothers and Caregivers.

"You and yours will fare better, if you prepare." K.M.K.

The H5N1 Avian (bird flu) Influenza is spreading across the globe and is headed your way.

So imagine waking up tomorrow morning and discovering the carcasses of hundreds of birds of all varities, strewn in your front and back yard, in the streets/roads and on vehicles, and in parks and along waterways. Even though the sun is shinning brightly and a gentle breeze touches your cheeks, the birdless silence sends chills down your spin and the hair stands up on the back of your neck.

The H5N1 Avian (bird flu) Influenza has reached your doorsteps...

DOCTOR MOM'S BIRD FLU BOOK provides precautionary, preventative, and preparedness strategies for mothers and caregivers.

In addition I have published a petition that's addressed to the U.S. Attorney General "America's Chief Health Educator" asking him to provide leadership in implementing a bird flu public education initiative. So under his direction the U.S. Department of Health & Human Service's Department of Health Resources can develop materials written in plain languages that citizens of all races, ages, economic and education levels can understand. (Following the example set by the nation of New Zealand, who on March 20, 2006, will begin a mass-mailing of 1.4 million bird flu education materials to households nationwide?)

Petition is found at

Your consideration and support in this important matter is appreciated. Please share with others that this resource and petition is available?

Karen Murphy-Kimber (K.M.K.)
Human Rights Activist/Author
kimberferris@sbcglobal.net

P.S. If you are not a U.S. citizen, but would you like to follow the lead of New Zealand and have your Minister of Health implement a public health initiative, than contact him or her.

-- posted by KMK57

Top 3. Feb 13, 2006 6:59 PM

» KMK57 - Petition the U.S. Surgeon General For Bird Flu Education

I have published a petition that's addressed to the U.S. Attorney General "America's Chief Health Educator" asking him to provide leadership in implementing a bird flu public education initiative. So under his direction the U.S. Department of Health & Human Service's Department of Health Resources can develop materials written in plain languages that citizens of all races, ages, economic and education levels can understand. (Following the example set by the nation of New Zealand, who on March 20, 2006, will begin a mass-mailing of 1.4 million bird flu education materials to households nationwide?)

Petition is found at

[url]http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeactio...

Your consideration and support in this important matter is appreciated. Please share with others that this resource and petition is available?

Karen Murphy-Kimber (K.M.K.)
Human Rights Activist/Author
[email]kimberferris@sbcglobal.net[/email]

P.S. If you are not a U.S. citizen, but would you like to follow the lead of New Zealand and have your Minister of Health implement a public health initiative, than contact him

-- posted by KMK57

Top 4. Apr 14, 2006 9:53 AM

» KMK57 - Influenza Drill for (K-12) Schools

"We are in a race. We are in a race against a fast moving virulent virus with the potential to cause an influenza pandemic...We are in a race, against a changing virus, for H5N1 has not only spread, it has evolved. There are now two main variants, or clads, of H5N1 and it is this second, newer clad that is spreading across western Asia into Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This second clade has killed over 60 percent of those it is known to have infected. Let me be very clear. It is only a matter of time before we discover H5N1 in birds in America." Secretary Michael Leavitt, HHS

INTRODUCTION
A pandemic is a widespread epidemic outbreak of a new virus that humans have little or no immunity too. There were three pandemics in the last century in 1918, 1957, and 1968. The Spanish Flu caused 500,000 U.S. deaths and up to 40 - 50 million deaths worldwide. The world is currently on pandemic alert in response to the threat of the H5N1 virus. The H5N1 virus is now causing widespread illness and death to poultry in the Middle East, Asia, and some parts of Europe.

So far, about 200 cases of H5N1 have occurred in humans, usually through close contact with sick poultry. The virus has not developed the ability to spread easily from human to human. Several changes would need to occur with the virus for the virus to spread this way. If the virus does develop the ability to spread easily among humans, and it keeps it's ability to cause a very serious illness and (the A H5N1 Avian Influenza (bird flu) , "looks and acts a like lot like the 1918 Spanish Flu, rather than the 1957 and 1968 cousin flus," according to Alex Azar, II, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) and it spreads to the United States, each of us will need to be prepared.

The estimated number of U.S. deaths associated with a moderate (1958/68-like) influenza pandemic could be 209,000, an estimated number of U.S. deaths associated with a (1918-like) influenza pandemic could be 1,903,000.

Illness rates could be high among school-aged children (about 40%). Viral shedding and risk of transmission will be greatest during the first 2 days of illness. Children usually shed the greatest amount of virus and therefore are likely to post the greatest risk for transmission.

Children can be taught common-sense steps that limit the spread of germs: washing hands frequently with soap and water, covering their mouth and nose with a tissue when they cough or sneeze, putting the tissue in a waste basket, sneezing into their sleeve, and using alcohol-based hand sanitizer when soap or water isn't available.

Sources-

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "School District (K - 12) Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist"

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), "Pandemic Influenza Planning: A Guide for Individuals and Families"

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), "Pandemic Planning Update: A Report from Secretary Michael O. Leavitt, March 13, 2006"

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), "What Is An Influenza Pandemic?"

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), "How Does Seasonal Flu Differ From Pandemic Flu?"

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), "Planning Assumptions"

U.S. Department of Education, "Practical Information on Crisis Planning: A Guide For Schools and Communities"

INFLUENZA DRILL GOALS -

1) To make hand hygiene a habit among school children.

2) To make cough/sneeze etiquette a habit among school children.

3) To establish infection transmission prevention school procedures.

INFLUENZA DRILL HHS and CDC Components -

Implement and exercise /drill to test pandemic plans and revise it periodically.

Work with the local health department to implement effective infection prevention policies and procedures that help limit the spread of influenza at schools in the district (e.g. promotion of hand hygiene cough/sneeze etiquette).

Make good hygiene a habit now in order to help protect children from many infectious diseases such as flu.

Provide sufficient and accessible infection prevention supplies (e.g. soap, alcohol-based/waterless hand hygiene products, tissues and receptacles for their disposal).

INFLUENZA DRILL ELEMENTS -

TEACHERS/STAFF provided with surgical masks, personal bottles of alcohol-based hand sanitizer, gloves, tissues, paper towels, spray disinfectant, and garbage receptacles at their work stations

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE STAFF provided with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

PARENTS will be assured that they will be notified in a timely manner if their children are ill, and that if one of their children's classmates gets sick - - that procedures are in place to lessen the spread of cold or flu.

STUDENTS will be provided with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer towelette at each meal, tissues and garbage receptacles in each room, access to a nurse's office or AIDE Room, and access to AIDE Stations equipped with surgical masks (children and adult sizes), disposable thermometers, tissues, alcohol-based hand sanitizer, a flip chart of signs, symptoms and emergency information.

Nurse's Office or AIDE Room (If no nurse's office is available, then consult with health department or medical experts for specifications and design)

AIDE Stations mounted on walls throughout the school building that is equipped with surgical masks (children and adult sizes), disposable thermometers, tissues, alcohol-based hand sanitizer in mounted containers, a flip chart of signs, symptoms and emergency information.

POSTERING about hand hygiene, cough/sneeze etiquette, Who To Tell When You Don't Feel Well

CURRICULUM about cough/sneeze etiquette, hand hygiene, germs/viruses, epidemics/pandemics, and avian influenza (age appropriate activities, instruction, assemblies)

FUNDING IS NEEDED FOR
PPEs
Disposable Thermometers
Bottles of Alcohol-based Hand Sanitizer
Hand Sanitizer Wall Holders
Alcohol-based Hand Sanitizer Towelettes
Personal bottles of Alcohol-based Hand Sanitizer
Paper Towels
Facial Tissues
Spray Disinfectant
Surgical Masks (children and adult sizes)
Gloves
Waste Receptacles
Information Materials
Posters
Copying
INFLUENZA /FLU DRILL
1. If a student informs a staff member in the class, that he is ill or if a student appears to be feverish or has a persistent cough; a staff member will ask all students in the room to put their heads down on their desk or surface, (and not to lift them until instructed to do so).
2. The staff member in the class, will call the office to notify the nurse (if available) or chaperon that a student may be ill and needs escorting to the nearest AIDE Station for triage.
3. The staff member in the class, will put on a surgical mask and walk the student to the door when the chaperon who also is wearing a surgical mask, arrives. Once an all clear is signaled. [All clear means - the student has been triaged, was found to have a temperature of 100.1 or more and is on the way to the nurse's office or AIDE room to wait for parents to pick him up; or the student is all right and will be returning to class.]
4. If the student was found to be ill the staff member in the class, will disinfect the desk or surface where the ill student sat. If not the Influenza drill is over.
5. The staff member in the class, will go with depending on grade, or send students (one student at a time) to the nearest AIDE station to blow their nose, throw away the tissue, and sanitize their hands with the alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
6. Each student's desk or surface in the class, is disinfected before they can sit back down and put their heads back down on their desk or surface, until every student has gone to the AIDE station and has had their desk or surface disinfected.
7. At the AIDE station the chaperone takes the student's temperature with a disposable thermometer. If the student has a fever the chaperone will help or have (depending on the age), the student put on a surgical mask and will help or have the student wash his hands with the alcohol-based hand sanitizer, and finally escort him to the nurse's office or AIDE room and call his parents.
8. In the nurse's office or AIDE room, the ill student waits for his parents to come. The chaperone waits with him.
#END OF DRILL#

-- posted by KMK57