Miller County Health Center - Updates

Pandemic Influenza:

 

Status:    Phase 3

              No or very limited human-to-human transmission

 

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) makes the designation of phases, including decisions on when to move from one phase to another.

 

Each phase of alert coincides with a series of recommended activities to be undertaken by WHO, the international community, governments, and industry.  Changes from one phase to another are triggered by several factors, which include the epidemiological behavior of the disease and the characteristics of circulating viruses.

 

The world is presently in phase 3: a new influenza virus subtype is causing disease in humans, but is not yet spreading efficiently and sustainable among humans.

 

 

Definition of Pandemic Flu:

 

Pandemic flu is virulent human flu that causes a global outbreak, or pandemic, of serious illness.  Because there is little natural immunity, the disease can spread easily from person to person.  Currently, there is no pandemic flu.

 

 

Recalls:

 

Toy Recalls:  www.cpscgov/cpscpub?prerel/category/toy.html

 

Infant/Child Product Recalls:  http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/category/child.html

 

Food Recalls:  http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fsis_Recalls/Open_Retail_Recall_Cases/index.asp

 

 

Future Programs:

 

The Miller County Health Center is in the process of implementing a new Sewer Ordinance for Miller County.  Updates on the progress and the arrival of the ordinance will follow or for more information contact the Miller County Health Center and ask for ext. 302.

 

 

For more information:    www.pandemicflu.gov