Birdflu Mailing List: sign "..Flu-like Symptoms?"

[William Weir (wweir1]

I have prepared this sign (attached in MS Word and below)
"Do you have any Flu-like Symptoms?"

I recommend it for use at entrances to assembly halls, classrooms, etc.
in multiple copies so that anyone feels free to take a copy.

It should be accompanied by a few N95 respirators, preferably the type given
out by the Park Nicollet Health Services' pulmonary medicine department, a
3M 8200, which is a bit thicker and more breathable.


Bill Weir, Chair, Comte. on Emergency Preparedness,
First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis (FUS)

Do you have any Flu-like Symptoms?



1> High fever (102+), in 80% of H1N1 flu cases,

2> Dry cough,

3> Chest discomfort,

4> Muscle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myalgia> pains,

5> Severe headache <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headache>, in 80%,

6> Weakness and fatigue,

7> Diarrhea

8> Vomiting

9> Chills, in 60%,

10> Pneumonia.

usually with rapid onset, 3-to-6 hours



If you (or someone you are caring for) have any of these, please feel free
to put on one of these respirators, fitting it tightly (without beard or
other hair around rim) so that you breathe out only filtered air.   Until
you do so, you may want to reduce your infecting of others by staying

away -- at least ten feet away.



Please consider calling your primary-care physician or nurse to list your
symptoms,

perhaps be seen and ask about a prescription for an anti-viral (such as
Tamiflu).



Please stay out of the assembly at this time.                  *
*

*We hope you are well enough to come next week, *

at least 24 hours after symptoms are gone.



Prepared by Bill Weir, Comte. for Emergency Preparedness, First Unitarian
Society of Minneapolis 9/09