Providing San Diego County
Immunization Providers
Resources and Interventions
for Pandemic H1N1 Influenza
H1N1 isn't seasonal!

"Flu News You Can Use" Event held on November 12, 2009:

• Slide Presentations:
  Flu-News-You-Can-Use.pdf

Notice:

• Sanofi Pasteur shortens the expiration dates of 50 lots of H1N1.  Providers have been notified by the Sanofi or the county that the expiration date of 509 lots were shortened to Feb 15th 2010:
  Click to See Full Text - 2/4/2010
  
  H1N1 Influenza Vaccine - Exemption to State Thimerosal Law Extended Through September 2010:
  Click to See Memo to California Physicians - 12/08/2009
  
  
• State Grants Temporary Exemption:
  Young children & pregnant women may receive thimerosal-containing H1N1 vaccine:
  Click to See Memo to California Physicians - 11/25/2009
  

Resources:

• County of San Diego H1N1 Flu Information:
  www.sdcounty.ca.gov/Portal/News/swineflu.html
  
  
• Recommendations at:
  www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
  
  
• MMWR for Novel H1N1:
  www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/
  mmwrhtml/rr58e0821a1.htm
  
  
• Resources for Clinicians:
  www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/clinicians/
  
  
• "H1N1 Influenza & You" Toolkit
  Now Available! Click Here!

VIS Statements:

VIS H1N1: Inactivated ("flu shot"):

• English (without consent form)
• Spanish (without consent form)
• English (with consent form)
• Spanish (with consent form)

VIS H1N1 Live, Attenuated (the "nasal spray" vaccine):

• English (without consent form)
• Spanish (without consent form)
• English (with consent form)
• Spanish (with consent form)

Resources for Your Patients:

Take 3 Steps

• English
• Spanish
  
  

A guide for Parents:
Pandemic Flu Flyer