The US Department of Health information on the H1N1 flu

The US Department of Health & Human Services & Centers for Disease Control created a small-footprint widget that provides helpful information on what action to take and what people can do. We would appreciate the help of your teams in placing the widget on as many home and related web pages as possible. An English-language version is immediately available. A Spanish language version will be available soon.

If you are not the appropriate person to assist in this communication to your audiences, please forward this information to your web content managers and staff.

The widget, with coding, is available from http://www.hhs.gov/web/library/index.html (scroll to the bottom of the page). Our affiliated federal agencies and their web teams are also forwarding to their counterparts. We appreciate your help in providing this information.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is assisting the CDC in spreading helpful information and education about the H1N1 flu outbreak and preventive actions to slow its spread to your audiences. CMS partner organizations and news media organizations in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arkansas and Oklahoma – CMS's Region VI – are asked to consider adding this important information about the H1N1 flu for newscasts and websites, if not already added.

The widget has three links: information, investigation and "what you can do."

This H1N1 flu-specific widget has been created as an application that displays featured content directly on your web page. Once you've added the widget, there's no technical maintenance. Users can either search for products by brand name or browse product categories through the widget without ever having to leave your Web site.

By adding the CDC's H1N1 flu widget (pictured above) to your organization's Web page, you can allow your site visitors to check the CDC database to make sure important and timely information is included, as well as tips to protect themselves from the cause and spread of the disease and create better awareness of related symptoms.

More information is available at: http://www.cdc.gov
For more information about government efforts to use social media to inform the public about the H1N1 flu outbreak and related information, please visit www.cdc.gov/socialmedia,
Thank you for your help in this important health and safety matter!