Middlesex County Public Health Department Hotline 732-745-4344
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
Toll-free telephone line: 1-866-321-9571 The telephone line will be operational Monday-Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Summary: The Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (OCISO) at the CDC, with the Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) have received reports of fraudulent emails (phishing) referencing a CDC sponsored State Vaccination Program for the H1N1 “Swine Flu” contagion. CDC has NOT implemented a state vaccination program requiring registration on www.cdc.gov. Users that click on the embedded link in the email are at risk of having malicious code installed on their system. OCISO would like to remind users to take the following steps to reduce the risk of being a victim of a phishing attack:
1. Do not follow unsolicited links and do not open or respond to unsolicited email messages.
2. Use caution when visiting un-trusted websites.
3. Use caution when entering personal information online.
Non-Safety-Related Voluntary Recall of Certain Lots of Sanofi Pasteur H1N1 Pediatric (0.25 mL, for 6-35 month olds) Vaccine in Pre-Filled Syringes Questions and Answers
Register Ready http://www.registerready.nj.gov
This registration Web site allows residents with special needs and their families, friends and associates an opportunity to provide information to emergency response agencies, so emergency responders can better plan to serve them in a disaster or other emergency.
Middlesex County Public Health Department Medical Reserve Corps
The MCPHD is looking for volunteers to join the Medical Reserve Corp (MRC) to assist during a public health emergency.
MRC volunteers include medical and public health professionals, as well as others interested in strengthening the public health infrastructure and improving the preparedness and response capabilities of their local jurisdiction.
MRC volunteers are able to help with call centers, researching information for education materials, assisting in investigations and other important public health activities.
The Food and Drug Administration is informing consumers of, and protecting them against, potential harm associated with unapproved products claiming to diagnose, prevent, or otherwise act against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus.
Classroom programming is available for preschool through grade 6
PROGRAMS FOR THE COMMUNITY
Obesity and Chronic Disease
Know your Numbers
Parent Program
Supermarket Savvy
Dining out Healthy
Portion Distortion
Walking for Fitness
Contact the Middlesex County Public Health Department’s Health Education Division
Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 4:15 pm at 732-745-8484 to arrange for a FREE program
KEEP THE BEAT2009-2010
Each month three new Heart Healthy recipes will be available here (in Adobe PDF format) from Keep the Beat, a cookbook published by the National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute. Each recipe includes nutritional information for each serving.
The
flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses.
It can cause mild to severe illness. The best way to prevent this illness
is by getting a flu vaccination each fall.
Some
people, such as older people, young children, and people with certain
health conditions, are at high risk for serious flu complications.
Bird
flu is an infection caused by avian (bird) influenza (flu) viruses.
These flu viruses occur naturally among birds. Wild birds worldwide
carry the viruses in their intestines, but usually do not get sick from
them. However, bird flu is very contagious among birds and can make
some domesticated birds, including chickens, ducks, and turkeys, very
sick and kill them.
An
influenza pandemic is a global outbreak of disease that occurs when
a new influenza A virus appears or “emerges” in the human population,
causes serious illness, and then spreads easily from person to person
worldwide. Pandemics are different from seasonal outbreaks or “epidemics”
of influenza. Seasonal outbreaks are caused by subtypes of influenza
viruses that already circulate among people, whereas pandemic outbreaks
are caused by new subtypes, by subtypes that have never circulated among
people, or by subtypes that have not circulated among people for a long
time.
Severe
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory illness caused
by a coronavirus, called SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). SARS
was first reported in Asia in February 2003. Over the next few months,
the illness spread to more than two dozen countries in North America,
South America, Europe, and Asia before the SARS global outbreak of 2003
was contained.
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