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Epidemics/Pandemics | Breckenridge Skip to main content I Want ToApply for a Permit Pay Water Bill Online Open Records Request Form Breckenridge Reclamation Register Your Pets Register to Vote Animal Welfare Posted Notices Report a Problem View City Documents View City Events View City Maps View Employment Opportunities Annexation Links to Local Resources GovernmentImportant NoticesPast Notices SKATE PARK Organizational Chart Commission Members City Charter Agendas & Minutes Code of Ordinances Budgets Audits County, State & Federal Resources Boards & Commissions Financial Transparency DepartmentsCity Manager Municipal Court Public ServicesParks & Recreation Aging Services Cemetery Public SafetyPolice Fire Code City SecretaryFinancial Services / Human Resources Election / Elección Public Information / Records Management Utility Billing / Collections Public Works CommunityEvents Calendar Photo Gallery History Profile Recreation & Entertainment Murals Links to Local Resources Breck Trade Days Know & PrepareEpidemics/Pandemics Gas Wells & Pipelines Hail Heat, Drought & Wildfire Holiday Hazard Severe Weather Tornados Traveling During the Holidays Winter Weather CodeRED Weather Alerts Epidemics/Pandemics So what’s the difference between a flu “bug” circulating virtually your school or office and a flu epidemic? Epidemics exceed what is expected. Many people are expected to get the flu each year but if flu cases skyrocket to an unpredicted level, it’s considered an epidemic. A pandemic is a global outbreak of a disease that occurs when a new virus appears in the human population, causes serious illness, and then spreads hands from person to person throughout the world. The H1N1 virus reached pandemic status in the winter of 2009-2010 and led the CDC to transpiration flu vaccines the pursuit season. The weightier thing you can do to prepare for the possibility of an epidemic or pandemic is to stay zestful and informed. You can moreover visit the Center for DiseaseTenancywebsite at www.cdc.gov for increasingly information. Your local county health department is an spanking-new source of information on health issues in your community, and where to find vaccines if appropriate.  Preparing for an Epidemic: Make sure your Emergency Supply Kit is ready. Educate yourself well-nigh types of epidemics and how they may stupefy you. Follow directions from officials well-nigh sheltering-in-place or evacuating. Practice healthy habits that may protect you and others later: wash your hands, imbricate coughs and sneezes, and stay home from work or school if you are sick. Flu Facts: Everyone 6 months and older should get a flu vaccine as soon as vaccine is misogynist each fall. Your local county health department tracks virus cases in your zone and constantly informs the public on vaccine availability and shot clinics. Take wholesomeness of the many opportunities to get flu shots each fall, as the vaccines are updated yearly to gainsay the most zippy strains. Risk Groups Learn who is included in upper risk groups, and the specific medical translating for each group by visiting the Centers for DiseaseTenancyand Prevention’s Flu website, http://www.cdc.gov/flu/. Flu: Talking to Your Children Talking to Children well-nigh the Flu (Novel H1N1): A Parent Resource Concerns over Novel H1N1 flu and seasonal flu can make children and parents anxious. We know that both strains spread easily; what we don't know is how virulent is may be become. Acknowledging some level of concern, without panicking, is towardly and can result in people taking deportment that reduce the risk of illness. Helping children cope with uneasiness regarding the flu requires providing prevention information without causing alarm. Children squint to adults for guidance on how to react to stressful events. If parents seem overly worried, children may panic. Parents should reassure their children that health and school officials are working nonflexible to ensure that people throughout the country stay healthy. However, children moreover need factual, age towardly information well-nigh the potential seriousness of disease risk and touchable instruction well-nigh how to stave infection and spread of the virus. Teaching children positive preventive measures, talking with them well-nigh their fears, and giving them a sense of some tenancy over their risk of infection can help reduce anxiety. Specific Guidelines Remain wifely and reassuring. Your children will react to and follow your verbal and nonverbal reactions. What you say and do well-nigh the flu virus and current prevention efforts can either increase or subtract your child's anxiety. If true, emphasize to your children that they and your family are fine. Remind them that you and the adults at their school are there to alimony them unscratched and healthy. Let your children talk well-nigh their feelings and help put their concerns into the towardly perspective. Make yourself available. Your children may need uneaten sustentation from you and may want to talk well-nigh their concerns and questions. Make time for them. Tell them you love them and requite them plenty of hugs and kisses. Know the symptoms of the flu and how it spreads. Symptoms of flu include fever, sore throat and cough. Some people moreover have a runny nose, fatigue, soul aches, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. The virus is transmitted through the coughing or sneezing of people infected with the virus. People may moreover wilt infected by touching something with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouths or noses. The virus is not spread by eating pork or other foods.Alimonyupdated on vaccine availability. It's important to follow the translating of the federal, state and local public health officials well-nigh vaccinating your children. An constructive vaccine will be essential to preventing the spread of Novel H1N1. Review vital hygiene and healthy lifestyle practices. Encourage children to practice every day good hygiene by washing their hands (multiple times a day for at least 20 seconds), by tent their mouths with a tissue when they sneeze or cough, and throwing out the tissue immediately, and my not sharing supplies or drinks. These simple steps are very constructive at preventing the spread of flu and other illnesses. Giving children guidance on what they can do to prevent infection gives them a greater sense of tenancy over the flu and will help to reduce their anxiety. Encouraging children to eat a well-turned diet, get unbearable sleep and exercise regularly will help them develop a strong immune system to fight off illness. Be honest and accurate. In the sparsity of factual information, children often imagine situations far worse than reality. Don't ignore their concerns, but rather explain that at the present moment the vast majority of people, plane those who are sick, will be okay. Children can be told that there are many ways to stave the virus and that doctors can help to treat people who do get sick. Contact your school nurse or pediatrician and/or trammels the www.flu.gov Web site for factual information. Discuss new rules or practices at school. Many schools will be enforcing prevention habits. This might include increasingly frequent hand washing or use of alcohol-based hand cleansers; for older children, schools may temporarily limit activities where students are in tropical proximity or sharing items. Your school nurse or principal will send information home. Be sure to discuss this with your child. Contact your school nurse with any specific questions.  Staveexcessive blaming. When tensions are high, some people exert excessive energy trying to assign blame. It is important to stave stereotyping any one group of people as responsible for the virus. Bullying or negative comments made toward others should be stopped and reported to the school. Monitor television viewing. Limit television viewing or wangle to information on the internet. Constantly watching updates on the status of the flu virus can increase anxiety. Engage your child in games or other interesting activities instead. Developmentally inappropriate information can rationalization uneasiness or confusion, particularly in young children. Maintain a normal routine to the extent possible. Keeping to a regular schedule can be reassuring and promotes physical health. Encourage them to alimony up with their schoolwork and extracurricular activities, but don't push them if they seem overwhelmed. Communicate with your school. Let your school know if your child is sick, and alimony them home. Talk to your school nurse, school psychologist, school counselor, or school social worker if your child is having difficulties as a result of uneasiness or stress related to the flu. they can requite guidance and support to your child at school. Follow all instructions from your school. Take Time to Talk. You know your child best. Let their questions be your guide as to how much information to provide. However, don't stave giving them the information that health experts identify as hair-trigger to ensuring your children's health. Be patient; children and youth do not unchangingly talk well-nigh their concerns readily. Watch for clues that they may want to talk, such as hovering virtually while you do the dishes or yard work. It is very typical for younger children to ask a few questions, return to playing, then come when to ask increasingly questions.Alimonyexplanations age appropriate. Early elementary school children need brief, simple information that should wastefulness H1N1 flu facts with towardly reassurances that their schools and homes are unscratched and that adults are there to help alimony them healthy and take superintendency of them if they do get sick.Requitesimple examples of the steps people take every day to stop germs, such as washing hands. Upper elementary and early middle school children will be increasingly vocal in asking questions well-nigh whether they truly are unscratched and what will happen if the H1N1 flu comes to their school or community. They may need assistance separating reality from fantasy. Discuss efforts of school and polity leaders to prevent germs from spreading. Upper middle school and upper school students are worldly-wise to discuss the issues in a increasingly in-depth (adult-like) malleate and can be referred directly to towardly sources of H1N1 flue facts (easily accessed through www.flu.gov). Provide honest, well-judged and factual information well-nigh the current status of the H1N1 flu. Having such knowledge can help them finger a sense of control. Suggested points to emphasize when talking to children. Not everyone will get the flu. School health officials are stuff expressly shielding to make sure as few people as possible get sick. Receiving the H1N1 vaccine is not unlike receiving other vaccinations needed to shepherd school. There are things we can do to stay healthy and stave spreading disease, such as washing our hands, tent our mouths with a tissue or sleeve when we sneeze of cough, throwing out the tissue immediately and staying home when we don't finger well. Adults at home and school are taking superintendency of your health and safety. If you have a concern, please talk to an sultana you trust. It is important that all students treat each other with respect and not jump to conclusions well-nigh who may or may not have the flu. lt is important for all students to treat each other with respect and not jump to conclusions well-nigh who may or may not have the flu. Know & Prepare Epidemics/Pandemics Gas Wells & Pipelines Hail Heat, Drought & Wildfire Holiday Hazard Severe Weather Tornados Traveling During the Holidays Winter Weather CodeRED Weather Alerts Search form Search Contact Us City Offices 105 North Rose Ave. Breckenridge, TX 76424 254-559-8287 254-559-7322   Fax   Andy McCuistion, City Manager amccuistion@breckenridgetx.gov Email Andy   Heather Robertson-Caraway, City Secretary hrobertson@breckenridgetx.gov Email Heather       Municipal Court Fire Department Police Department Water Utility Department   254-559-2160 254-559-6242 254-559-2211 254-559-7249     Site Designed & Developed by EDsuite Copyright © 2012  |  User Login