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January 1, 2009
Seattle & King County has developed a 12-page comic book on pandemic flu in multiple languages. Targeting readers of all ages, this story tells the tale of a family's experience with the 1918 influenza pandemic. It also explains what to expect in a severe pandemic and offers tips to help households prepare.
It is designed to communicate pandemic flu preparedness messages to limited-English-proficient, non-English-proficient, and low-literacy groups. No Ordinary Flu: Graphically depicts what a pandemic might look like (e.g., empty schoolyards, crowded hospitals, people spaced apart from one another)
Makes the prospect of a pandemic more concrete by showing that it has happened in the past
Demonstrates through illustration how individuals can prepare (e.g., illustrations of food and supplies in storage)
Helps audiences visualize how everyday life will change in a pandemic so that they can “mentally rehearse” what an actual pandemic might entail
No Ordinary Flu_Amharic
No Ordinary Flu_Arabic
No Ordinary Flu_Bosnian
No Ordinary Flu_Burmese
No Ordinary Flu_Chinese
No Ordinary Flu_Farsi
No Ordinary Flu_French
No Ordinary Flu_Hmong
No Ordinary Flu_Khmer
No Ordinary Flu_Korean
No Ordinary Flu_Laotian
No Ordinary Flu_Nepali
No Ordinary Flu_Oromo
No Ordinary Flu_Portuguese
No Ordinary Flu_Punjabi
No Ordinary Flu_Russian
No Ordinary Flu_Somali
No Ordinary Flu_Spanish
No Ordinary Flu_Tagalog
No Ordinary Flu_Tigrigna
No Ordinary Flu_Ukrainian
No Ordinary Flu_Vietnamese