Looking for material on the flu?
There are a number of resources about health safety and disease, but if you want to focus specifically on this season’s H1N1 influenza, there is a government site available at Flu.gov. The site itself is available in multiple languages and also has an entire section of handouts in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Espanol, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Korean, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Flu.gov also has an interactive flu shot locator, an H1N1 Self-Evaluation, and a section on myths and facts.
Local Resources
Connecticut has its own informational flu site at CTFLUWATCH with information in the following languages besides English: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. For information via the telephone, the H1N1 Influenza Hotline is 1-800-830-9426. You can also encourage your students living in CT to dial 211 for information.
Beyond the Flu
Another national site with information on the H1N1 influenza is the Centers for Disease Control which is available in Spanish and a number of other languages. There is also a Family Health page which deals with a variety of issues beyond the flu, such as safety during holidays like Halloween, and has material written in a style for children.
Using Google News Alerts
To keep up to date on the flu, you can also setup a news alert on Google that can email you a digest of new articles once a day. Simply go the alerts page from Google and fill out the simple form on the right.
