In this August 2009 CDC video, NCIRD Chief Science Officer Dr. Anne Schuchat answers parents’ questions about the 2009 H1N1 flu and the vaccine to protect against it. Read more...

Acting Surgeon General Dr. Steven Galson discusses what you can do to protect yourself from H1N1 flu. This video can also be viewed at http://www.hhs.gov/ Read more...

In this video from early 2009, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, discusses the H1N1 Influenza A Virus. Read more...

If the H1N1 virus follows the pandemic patterns of the 20th century, health care providers should prepare for the potential of higher level of virulence in the fall wave, which occurred in both 1918 and 1957. Patterns would suggest cases could appear in early fall and will be occurring well into the normal seasonal flu months. Read more...

Early indications are that pregnancy and other previously recognized medical conditions that increase the risk of influenza-related complications, like asthma and diabetes, appear to be associated with increased risk of complications from this novel H1N1 virus infection as well. Early reports indicate that no children and few adults younger than 60 years old have existing antibody to the novel H1N1 flu virus; however, about one-third of adults older than 60 may have antibodies against this virus. So far, with novel H1N1 flu, the largest number confirmed and probable cases have occurred in people between the ages of 5 and 24-years-old. Read more...

Novel influenza A (H1N1) is a new flu virus that was first detected in April, 2009. It is thought that novel influenza A (H1N1) flu spreads in the same way that regular seasonal influenza viruses spread; mainly through the coughs and sneezes of people who are sick with the virus. Read more...