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Leaflet and adverts to stop virus spreading
Mark Prigg30 Apr 2009
One of Britain's biggest public health campaigns was launched today to try to calm fears over swine flu.
The Department of Health released television and print adverts with the slogan "Catch it. Bin it. Kill it".
A 12-page leaflet will be distributed to every home from Tuesday, outlining the crisis and what people need to do to prevent it. It advises people to:
●Always carry tissues.
●Wash hands several times a day with soap and hot water or sanitiser gel.
●Set up a network of "flu friends" to collect antiviral medicines for you should you contract the virus.
It also advises people not to buy face masks, saying "available scientific evidence shows they do not work".
The DoH has also set up an information phone line to deal with the expected public interest in the virus. The line is also expected to be used to distribute the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza once mass distribution is deemed necessary.
Reader views (1)
I hope the filthy individual who spits every morning on Thornton Heath Station at 0550 reads this.
Every day a wadge of sputum come flying past commuters. This morning I tackled him about his disgusting habit.
- Paul, London, 30/04/2009 13:13
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