Flu Information & Guidance

How to Know When to Go Seek Emergency Medical Care:

You should seek emergency medical care if you experience any of the following:

If you have flu-like symptoms and are in a high-risk group (pregnant, less than 5-years-old, or have a chronic disease), contact your physician.

Hospital Visitation Policies During The Flu:

Delaware's hospitals have collectively agreed to new visitation guidelines to protect patients, their loved ones  and health care workers from both seasonal and H1N1 flu.  Many states nationwide are implementing new temporary visitation guidelines as a result of increasing concern over containing the spread of both seasonal and H1N1 flu.  To read more, click here.

For more information on individual hospital's policies during the Flu, visit their websites at by clicking below:

Additional Flu Resources:

Flu.gov - the U.S. Government has compiled a website with all the latest flu news, guidelines, flu tracking, and everything else you need to know about flu.

Flu.Delaware.gov - the State of Delaware has compiled a website with all the latest flu news, guidelines, flu tracking, and everything else you need to know about flu.

Delaware Weekly Influenza Surveillance Reports

Delaware Department of Health and Social Services has posted the Delaware Weekly Influenza Surveillance Reports on their website at http://dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/epi/influenzawkly.html

Seasonal Flu - CDC web site on seasonal flu from what is flu, symptoms, vaccinations, and more.

H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) - CDC web site on H1N1 flu from what is H1N1, symptoms, vaccinations, and more.

H1N1 Clinical and Public Health Guidance - CDC web site for clinical health care professionals and public health officials.

CDC Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan to Respond to the 2009 -2010 Influenza Season.

CDC Guidance for State and Local Public Health Officials and School Administrators (K-12) Responses to Influenza During the 2009 - 2010 School Year.

CDC Guidance for Pharmacists to Influenza During the 2009-2010 School Year

CDC Documents Translated - The Missouri Hospital Association translation site www.healthtranslations.com has added four of the CDC H1N1 documents in eight different languages. The site has open access and we received instructions and permission from CDC to translated their documents. Note their logo has been removed and the language ..."adapted from CDC...." has been added.  The languages we have translated include the following: Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese (simple), Farsi, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Delaware Division of Public Health web site has many flu resources.

EEOC:  Pandemic Preparedness In The Workplace And The Americans With Disabilities Act

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a technical assistance document with information about how to work with provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and pandemic planning in the workplace.    http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/pandemic_flu.html

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has developed Pandemic Flu tools to determine if your employees are at risk of work-related exposures and, if so, how to respond. www.osha.gov/dsg/topics/pandemicflu/index.html.

Department of Labor recommends businesses review human resources policies to make sure policies and practices are consistent with public health recommendations and are consistent with existing State and Federal workplace laws (for more information on employer responsibilities, employers should visit the Department of Labor’s and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s websites at www.dol.gov and www.eeoc.gov.

National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL) has dedicated a page to H1N1 State and Federal resources and news.  Click here to visit their website.

If there are any resources you would like to see added to this page, please send them to Christine Pauley at christinep@deha.org.  Thank you!