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 all public health hazards they may face, including disasters, pandemic flu or other emerging infectious diseases. Share them with those you care about, or pass them out in your community!

NEW! Are You Ready? Fact sheets to help prepare for emergencies

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• Work: How to get ready for an emergency at work (PDF) English or Spanish
• Earthquakes: How to get ready for earthquakes (PDF) English or Spanish
• Floods: How to get ready for floods (PDF) English or Spanish
• Heat waves: How to get ready for a heat wave (PDF) English or Spanish
• Power outages: How to get ready for power outages (PDF) English or Spanish
• Winter storms: How to get ready for a winter storm (PDF) English or Spanish
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Free materials to help you create an emergency preparedness stockpile
Get Ready: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks
• Get the facts: Why do I need an emergency stockpile? English fact sheet or Spanish fact sheet (PDFs)
• Checklist: What should I put in my stockpile? English stockpile checklist or Spanish stockpile checklist (PDFs)
• Shopping list: What should I shop for? Grocery list (PDF)
• Recipes: What can I make to eat during a disaster? Recipes (PDF)
• Pets: How can I prepare my pets for emergencies? Pets (PDF)
• Frugal stockpiling: How can I stockpile without spending a lot? Cheap (PDF)
Full Toolkit (PDF) (Contains all the items listed above in English in a single document).
For more materials and tips from Get Ready: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks, see the campaign Web page.
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Helping Handouts: Free tips to share with your family, friends
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The flu shot: The best thing you can do to head off seasonal flu
The most important thing you can do to protect you and your family from seasonal flu is to get a flu shot. (PDF) English or Spanish
Disease prevention: The best advice may be "rub a dub dub"
With so many diseases out there, it's good to know that handwashing can help keep you safe. (PDF) English or Spanish
'Tis the season: Holiday traveler's advice for preventing the spread of infectious disease
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. (PDF) English or Spanish
Chicken about eating poultry? Properly cooking and handling your food is the answer.
Are you afraid to eat chicken? Learn the facts. (PDF) English or Spanish
What does H5N1 mean?
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. (PDF) English or Spanish
Quarantine: Scary scenario, or practical approach?
What will really happen is a disease outbreak strikes? (PDF) English or Spanish
So what is a flu pandemic, anyway?
What is the difference between regular flu and avian flu, and why are people making a flu pandemic seem so scary? (PDF) English or Spanish
Full set of all Helping Handouts (with both sides on single page)
Download the full set of Helping Handouts in a single PDF! Every PDF listed above in one file. (PDF) English or Spanish |
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Free materials to help you get prepared
Swine flu: What is swine flu? What can you do to keep yourself safe? English PDF or Spanish PDF
Add your logo on this fact sheet (Note: This fact sheet has general information on swine flu. For information specifically on H1N1, visit our special H1N1 page.)
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.
Get Ready: Get Set: An Emergency Preparedness Project Kit A how-to guide for high school students interested in taking on preparedness activities at school or in their community (PDF)
Emerging Infectious Diseases Fact Sheet (PDF)
What are the most common emerging infectious diseases, and how can you prevent them? Add your logo 
Fact Sheet on Preparing for Flu (PDF) How it helps to prepare for natural and manmade disasters. Add your logo 
Pandemic Flu Fact Sheet (PDF) How to protect yourself from pandemic flu, as well as signs and symptoms. Add your logo  |
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Free materials to help kids prepare
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Get Ready Kids Fun Site
Visit the Get Ready Kids Fun Site for games and other materials aimed specifically at kids.
Get Ready: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks kids
Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks offers games for kids as well as preparedness questions for children to ask their parents. (PDFs)
Get Ready Pandemic Flu Kids Guide
Download a PDF of the Get Ready Kids' Guide on Pandemic Flu. Visit our customization page to add your logo! 
Get Ready Games Guide
Hold your own Get Ready carnival for kids with our Get Ready Games Guide. Included are materials and tips for creating and playing games that teach preparedness. Note: This is a large file so download time may be slow. (8MB) (PDF)
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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!
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Free materials for policy-makers and the media
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Pandemic Flu Fact Sheet (PDF) Pandemic flu is different, and needs a coordinated response from policy-makers. Add your logo 
Bioterrorism Preparedness Fact Sheet (PDF)
Are we protected? Get the facts on bioterrorism preparedness.
Pandemic Flu Preparedness and Response Facts (PDF) What are we doing to make sure no one is left behind in pandemic flu planning? Add your logo  |
For questions about any of these materials, call us at (202) 777-2742 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.
*Materials marked with a green "L" symbol can be customized with your logo. For instructions, visit the Get Ready logo customization page or the Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks customization page.
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