Get The Facts: Ready-to-use materials from APHA's Get Ready campaign
Use these free materials from APHA to help Americans prepare themselves, their families and their communities for pandemic flu and other emerging infectious diseases. Share them with those you care about, or pass them out in your community!

Helping Handouts: Free fun tips to share with your friends, family

Pandemic Flu Prevention: The best advice may be "rub a dub dub" (PDF)
With a possible flu pandemic coming our way, it is good to know that handwashing can help keep you safe.

'Tis the Season: Holiday Traveler's Advice for Preventing the Spread of Infectious Disease (PDF)
Traveling home for the holidays? If you aren't careful, you could end up bringing home an uninvited guest to meet the family: infectious disease.

Chicken about eating poultry? Properly cooking and handling your food is the answer. (PDF)
With all the talk of avian flu, are you afraid to eat chicken?

What does H5N1 mean? (PDF)
With the alphabet soup of acronyms that are being talked about in reference to the flu, it can be hard to understand exactly what is going on. Learn what's what here.

Quarantine: Scary scenario, or practical approach? (PDF )
What will really happen when pandemic flu strikes?

The flu shot: The best thing you can do to head off seasonal flu (PDF)
The most important thing you can do to protect you and your family from seasonal flu is to get a flu shot.

So what is a flu pandemic, anyway? (PDF )
What is the difference between regular flu and avian flu, and why are people making a flu pandemic seem so scary?

NEW! Full set of all Helping Handouts (PDF)
Download the full set of Helping Handouts in a single PDF!

Free materials to help you get prepared

Emerging Infectious Diseases Fact Sheet (PDF )
What are the most common emerging infectious diseases, and how can you prevent them?
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Fact Sheet on Preparing for Flu (PDF )
How it helps to prepare for natural and manmade disasters. Add your logo NEW!

Preparedness Tip Sheet: Better to be safe than sorry (PDF )
Learn the most important things you can do to be prepared in this tip sheet from The Nation’s Health, the newspaper of the American Public Health Association.

Pandemic Flu Fact Sheet (PDF )
How to protect yourself from pandemic flu, as well as signs and symptoms. Add your logo NEW!

Pandemic Flu Preparedness and Response (PDF )

Free materials to help kids prepare for pandemic flu and other diseases

Get Ready Kids Fun Site
Visit the Get Ready Kids Fun Site for games and other materials aimed specifically at kids, including games, a kids guide to pandemic flu and a family checklist.

Get Ready: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks kids materials
Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks offers games for kids as well as preparedness questions for children to ask their parents. (PDFs)

Free materials to help you create an emergency preparedness stockpile

Get Ready: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks full toolikit (PDF ) (Contains all the items listed below). All of these materials include space for you to add your own logo!

For more materials and tips from Get Ready: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks, see the campaign Web page.

Free materials for policy-makers and the media

Pandemic Flu Fact Sheet (PDF )
In the past 100 years, we have seen three pandemics—in 1918, 1957 and 1968. We’re overdue for another pandemic. It’s not a question of if, but when.

Bioterrorism Preparedness Fact Sheet (PDF )
Are we protected? Get the facts on bioterrorism preparedness.

NEW! Free Get Ready logo downloads

Help spread the message about preparing for pandemic flu and other emerging infectious diseases by adding one of our logos to your materials or Web site!

For questions about any of these materials, call us at (202) 777-2472 or e-mail us. For other free materials from APHA on public health topics, check out these Healthy You tipsheets from The Nation's Health newspaper.