Prevention
Among the precautions taken:
- Plans are in place regarding patient care.
- CMC's emergency management team meets regularly to review the situation and make recommendations on measured response as needed.
- Campus facilities office and housing offices are providing enhanced cleaning services to rest room facilities, dining areas, computer labs, and residence halls.
- Hand sanitation stations are mounted on the east and west entrances of Collins Dining Hall. We encourage students, faculty, and staff to wash their hands before and when leaving the dining area.
- The staff in Collins Dining Hall is replacing frequently-used items such as salad bar utensils and other serving utensils several times during a service period.
- Posters and flyers have been placed around campus to remind everyone about proper coughing etiquette and hand-washing technique.
- Campus leaders communicate regularly to review the situation.
All members of the CMC community are asked to take the following precautions to help avoid contact and transmission of this virus:
- Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it. If a tissue is not readily available, do the "Dracula" sneeze into your elbow so that germs do not touch your hands.
- Wash your hands frequently with soap and warm water, especially after you cough or sneeze.
- Try to avoid close contact with sick individuals.
- Use provided sanitation stations located around campus.
- Use sanitation wipes to wipe down the keyboard and mouse when using computers in the computer labs.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth.
- Students residing in residence halls should remove all personal items from the bathrooms. This will allow the housekeeping staff to efficiently and thoroughly clean more surfaces in the bathrooms.
Like the regular seasonal flu, the H1N1 strain has been shown to be transmitted directly from person-to-person through coughing or sneezing and by touching contaminated items. This flu cannot be transmitted through the consumption of pork products.