Medical News Report Raises Awareness of Social Distancing During Flu Season

WELLINGTON, Fla. - Dec. 1, 2014 - PRLog -- A new Mission Critical Health medical video report encourages Americans to adopt the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommendations this Flu season, get your Flu vaccination, practice proper hand hygiene frequently throughout the day and use email and mobile phones to avoid close contacts with people showing flu like symptoms.

Avoiding close contacts with populations suffering with influenza is known as social distancing and it is an important protective behavior to limit the risks of exposures from droplet, aerosol transmissions from sneezing and coughing, or contaminated surface transmission during flu season.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, seasonal flu affects 31.4 Million people resulting in 200,000 hospitalizations from severe influenza complications each year.  Adults ages 18-64 account for almost 60% of flu hospitalizations.

There are new tools available to help you avoid influenza affected areas. A new mobile phone app creates a “weather map” of sickness in your local area. The Sickweather app acts like a Doppler radar, scanning social media sites for real-time indicators of sickness.  The app plots individual reports of illness onto a live map of your local area. This disease tracking capability allows you to receive notifications and stay informed of local outbreaks and avoid areas with reported influenza activity.

This news report, hosted by American Medical Women’s Association President Dr. Farzanna Haffizulla and produced by Mission Critical Health (MCH), provides healthcare professionals and their patients with important science-based information.

The video news report can be viewed at the following link:

http://youtu.be/AxeqqgdMGWQ



Mission Critical Health is a dynamic healthcare media company providing award winning health and medical video content to point of care TV platforms inside health care facilities, online and on TV channels nationwide. Mission Critical Health’s goal is to empower healthcare professionals through the delivery of peer reviewed science news reports addressing important patient care issues. Patients are also targeted with empowering health & wellness campaigns.

Sickweather is the doppler radar for sickness.  Just as Doppler radar scans the skies for indicators of bad weather, Sickweather scans social media for indicators of sickness.  A patent pending algorithm plots individual reports of illness onto a map, effectively creating 'Weather Maps' of sickness.  So now you can check for sickness as easily as you can check for the chance of rain! Learn more at www.Sickweather.com.

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