What you can do
Get vaccinated early for the seasonal flu
The CDC is recommending early vaccination for the seasonal flu to assist in reducing the spread of the H1N1 flu.
Student Health Services is offering seasonal flu vaccinations as vaccine supplies allow. Please check the Student Health Services Web site for current availability.
Cost: $20 for all students, regardless of insurance coverage. The cost will be billed to students' MyBill accounts.
Assemble or purchase a flu kit
Kits are available for $4 from Student Health Services. These kits include a travel-size bottle of hand sanitizer, two travel-size packets of tissues, five disposable masks, four single-use thermometers and a list of the CDC’s recommendations for home care.
Play your part by following the CDC’s common-sense preventative health measures
- Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
- Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners may are also effective.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs and viruses spread this way.
- Try to avoid close contact with people who are sick. Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.
- If you get sick, the CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
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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.