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Before You Get H1N1 Vaccine
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Before You Get Seasonal
Flu Vaccine
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After You Get Your Flu Shots
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Are You Pregnant?
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Cover Your Cough Poster
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Flu Info Sheet
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Kids Hand Washing Poster
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Stay Healthy Poster
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Staying At Home With the Flu
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Stop the Spread of the Flu
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For More Information

For more information on the H1N1 flu virus, please call your Community Health Centre, or in Iqaluit Public Health.

Flu Virus

What is the flu?

The flu is an illness that affects people’s lungs. Most people recover completely from the flu on their own. However, the flu can make some people (such as Elders) seriously sick.

How does it spread?

The flu spreads through droplets contained in sneezes and coughs and by hand contact. That is why basic actions like covering your coughs and sneezes and washing your hands can greatly reduce its spread.

What are the symptoms of the flu?

Almost everybody who gets sick with the flu has a fever higher than 38 degrees Celcius and a cough. Other symptoms can include headache, chills, sore throat, not feeling hungry, muscle aches, feeling tired, runny nose, and sneezing.
If you are concerned or have these symptoms, stay at home and please call your community health centre or public health for more information. This will help prevent the flu from spreading.

What can you do to protect yourself and your family?

Getting a yearly influenza vaccination is the best way to protect yourself and your family.
Washing your hands prevents the spread of all flu viruses. Wash your hands with soap and water thoroughly and often. No special soap is required.
When soap and water is not available, use an alcohol-based sanitizer (gel or wipes).
Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze and dispose of tissue. Cough into your upper sleeve if you don't have a tissue.
Stay at home when you have the flu and try to stay away from others in the house. In general, people with the flu should stay home for seven days. If your symptoms stop before then, wait one day before you return to your normal activities.
Keep common surfaces and items clean and disinfected such as door handles, telephone mouthpiece, kitchen and bathroom counters, computer keyboards. You can use regular household cleaners to disinfect.

Don’t share drinking cups or bottles, lipstick, or cigarettes, and remember to keep personal items like toothbrushes separated.
Latest Updates
Public Health Advisory - January 15, 2010
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Visit your Health Centre or Iqaluit Public Health to get your H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines.

Are you pregnant?
Pregnant women are at higher risk of developing complications from the H1N1 flu virus.
If you are pregnant and experience cough and fever, headache, chills, sore throat, not feeling hungry, muscle aches, feeling tired, runny nose, sneezing, watery eyes, sick to your stomach, or you throw up or get “the runs” (anaralaq) CALL your community health centre IMMEDIATELY.
It is really important to protect you and your baby by getting the H1N1 flu shots as soon as they are available in your community in November.