Public Health Scene

On April 27, after reviewing information about the confirmed cases of swine flu, the World Health Organization raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from the current phase 3 to phase 4.

What does this mean? And what should you know about the swine flu? We talked with Nick Kelley, a research assistant with the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

For starters, there's a lot that public health experts don't know yet, he says. But he recommends that people stay home if they are sick and says that families should develop their own personal and family emergency plan.

Listen to Kelley on Public Health Scene (4 min. 53 sec)

Resources
World Health Organization
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota
Minnesota Department of Health