EMS Solutions has just received an award for its H1N1 (Swine Flu) Pandemic Influenza News Blog from both the US Council of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) and the IAEM-Global Council. These two First Place Awards were in the Commercial/For-Profit Organization (Division 3) category of Public Awareness Awards. This tribute recognizes outstanding public awareness programs or public education products related to emergency management, homeland security and/or disaster preparedness. The US Council of the [...]
H1N1 (Swine Flu): CDC Lowers Annual Death Toll from 36,000 to 24,000
Last week, the CDC substantially lowered its often-quoted estimate of how many people die in a typical influenza season from 36,000 to 24,000. Now, that is quite a drop isn’t it? The new estimate is based on a reassessment and a broadening of the sample size of years, extending it now from 1976 to 2007. Deaths attributed to flu swung widely, from a low of 3,349 in the winter of 1986-7 to a high of [...]
H1N1 (Swine Flu): You Better Not Cry You Better Not Cough – Visiting Santa; Man’s Best Friend has H1N1 in China
FORGET COOKIES AND MILK. SANTA WANTS THE SWINE FLU VACCINE Many of America’s Santas want to be given priority for the vaccine and not just because of those germy kids. There is the element of that not-so-little round belly. Research has suggested obesity could be a risk factor – even for Santa! The group known as the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas (I am not kidding here – http://www.aorbsinc.com) recently featured a seminar on [...]
When To Take A Sick Child To The Hospital – Emergency Warning Signs
Parents are often really confused about this issue…when you have a sick child, when are they “sick enough” to take them to the hospital ER or when can it wait? When your child is sick with the flu, deciding when to head to the emergency room can be very difficult decision. The CDC estimated earlier this month that more children have died from the H1N1 flu than people over 65, about 540 children as of [...]
