Where to get health information
The following resources have the most up-to-date facts and advice about how best to protect yourself from H1N1 (swine) flu; what symptoms to look for; what to do if you think you may have the flu; and what to do if you think you may have been exposed to it:
- California Department of Public Health
Hotline: (888) 865-0564
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hotline: (800) CDC-INFO
- UC Davis Student Health Services
Student Health Services provides UC Davis students with wellness, illness and injury care. Services are available to all registered students, regardless of insurance. Students pay small fees for most services. For recorded information about H1N1, call the Cowell Student Health Center at (530) 752-2349 and press 9.
- UC Davis Medical Group
For UC Davis Medical Group patients only.
- UC Davis Health System, Employee Health Services
UC Davis Medical Center employees who have an unprotected exposure to a patient with confirmed or suspected influenza can be seen by Employee Health Services on the Sacramento campus.
If you feel sick
If you have mild flu symptoms, campus health officials urge you to stay home or in your dorm room to avoid making others sick. You should remain at home or in your dorm room, except to get medical care or for other necessities, until your fever has been gone for at least 24 hours. Additional advice about how to avoid spreading the flu is available from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
If you have severe symptoms, or if you are at high risk for complications from the flu, contact your health care provider or seek medical care. (People at high risk for flu complications include those with such conditions as diabetes, asthma and obesity). Your health care provider will decide whether flu testing or treatment is needed.
- UC Davis students may call their personal health care provider or Student Health Services at (530) 752-2300.
- Faculty and staff should call their personal health care providers.
In an emergency, call 911.