Updated Pandemic Plan  

The Southwest Utah Health Department has released the updated version of the its plan to address pandemic situations.

Download Pandemic Plan

Where will you and your family be when disaster strikes?  What would you do if basic services—water, gas, electricity, and telephones—were cut off for long periods? Emergencies and disasters strike quickly and without warning and can force you to evacuate your neighborhood or confine you to your home. Whether faced with a family emergency or a regional disaster, the effort you’ve put into family preparedness and disaster planning will play a large role in how well you “survive” the event.

What can you do to prepare your family?

Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your
neighborhood or confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services -
water, gas, electricity or telephones - were cut off? Local officials and relief
workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone
right away. Medical help may not arrive at all. 9-1-1 will be totally overwhelmed in
a major disaster.

Download our newly published Family Emergency Preparedness Guide...

Download a presentation on Personal & Family Preparedness...

Other helpful downloads

• Plan 9 Pamphlet
• Plan 9 Training Tool Booklet
• Stay At Home: How to avoid and prevent the spread of the flu
• Plan for the Avian Flu by the World Health Organization

Pandemic Influenza—Avian Flu

Severe influenza pandemics represent one of the greatest potential threats to the public’s health.  Pandemic influenza refers to a worldwide epidemic due to a new, dramatically different strain of influenza virus.  A pandemic or global epidemic is an outbreak of an infectious disease that affects people or animals over an extensive geographical area.  Avian flu (or bird flu) is a virus that occurs naturally among wild birds, but can be transmitted from birds to humans.  Humans have not developed immunity towards it, nor has a vaccine been created.

The Pandemic Influenza Response Plan for Southwest Utah District (Plan) provides guidance to Public health – (SWUPHD) and district partners regarding detection, response, and recovery from an influenza pandemic.  The Plan describes the unique challenges posed by a pandemic that may necessitate specific leadership decisions, response actions, and communications mechanisms.  To read more about SWUPHD Pandemic Influenza Response Plan click on our link.

Contact:

Paulette Valentine
Director of Communicable Disease & Emergency Preparedness
(435) 986-2579
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