May, 2010 (thispage will no longer be updated): April 2010 marked the 1-year anniversary of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. According to the CDC, 60 million people in the United States have been infected with 2009 H1N1, 270,000 of whom have been hospitalized and 12,270 of whom have died from 2009 H1N1-related illness. While H1N1 activity is relatively low, federal officials still recommend that all people over the age of 6-months get vaccinated. An interactive Flu Shot Locator has been created to provide up-to-date information on where the vaccine is available. The CDC has developed Vaccination Fact Sheets in a wide variety of languages. An H1N1 Self-Evaluation tool has also been developed which is a available in both. Both the US Department of Health and Human Services and the World Health Organization have begun efforts to review the national and international response to the H1N1 pandemic to guide future pandemic planning activities
The CDC has centralized information on the impact of the H1N1 on racial and ethnic minorities. A story aired on National Public Radio described the disproportionately high incidence rate of H1N1 among minorities in the Boston area as the result of social factors affecting these communities. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) has developed a state-by-state list of state health department activities to meet the needs of at-risk populations during the H1N1 pandemic
Individual Education & Preparedness Materials:
- The CDC has developed translated materials on the H1N1 vaccination in a wide variety of languages (Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Khmer/Cambodian, Korean, Oromo, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese)
- The CDC has developed translated materials on preventing the spread on H1N1 at work (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Haitian, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese)
- The Seattle & King County Department of Public Health as developed translated H1N1 materials, including a comic strip, in a wide variety of languages (Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Punjabi, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Vietnamese)
- ECHO Minnesota as developed multimedia resources on H1N1 in a wide variety of languages (Amharic, Arabic, English, Hmong, Karen, Khmer, Lao, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese)
- The Philadelphia Department of Public Health has produced a special health bulletin on H1N1 that is available in multiple languages (English, Chinese, French, Khmer/Cambodian, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese)
- The Office of Minority Health has centralized a number of resources on H1N1, including multimedia presentations and translated materials (Arabic, Asian languages, Bengali, Chinese, Indigenous languages in Mexico, and Korean)
- Swine Influenza and You (English and Spanish)
- Key Facts about Swine Influenza (English and Spanish)
- Swine Influenza: General Information (English and Spanish)
- Arab Community Center for Economic Social Services (ACCESS) issues swine flu advisory (English and Arabic)
- Germ Stopper Flyer (English, Chinese, French, Hmong, Khmer/Cambodian, Laotian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese)
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) has compiled a list of translated materials on H1N1
- The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has produced translated materials and podcasts on H1N1 in various languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, Haitian-Creole, Khmer/Cambodian, Korean, Portuguese)
- The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has compiled materials on H1N1 and pandemic influenza in various languages (Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Creole, Farsi, French, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese)
- ECHO Minnesota has produced translated information on H1N1 in printed, audio, and video formats (English, Hmong, Spanish, and Somali)
- The National Council of La Raza has centralized a variety of materials on H1N1 and Latino communities (English and Spanish)
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