Alerts for the UNCP Community of the current health topics: Influenza, Covid-19, MPV and anything else that may be pertinent.
FLU Virus
Student Health Services offers the Flu Vaccine to students, faculty and staff for free. We are now able to bill insurance for your flu vaccine. Anyone interested can walk into our office between 8:00am and 4:30pm, Monday - Friday. If you are unable to make our walk-in hours, there are multiple locations in the Pembroke-area that offer the flu vaccine for free or at a reduced cost (depending on your insurance type). Please call us with any questions.
Get Vaccinated
Everyone 6 months of age and older should get a flu vaccine every season, especially people at high risk. Call our office to find out more about getting your flu vaccine conveniently, on campus.
Preventative Steps
Take actions every day to help stop the spread of germs. Getting a flu vaccine is the most important. Washing your hands, drinking water and sanitizing surfaces are especially key when living on campus.
Treatment
There are prescription medications called “antiviral drugs” that can be used to treat flu illness.
NORA Virus
Norovirus is a very contagious virus. You can get norovirus from an infected person, contaminated food or water, or by touching contaminated surfaces. The virus causes your stomach or intestines or both to get inflamed (acute gastroenteritis). This leads you to have stomach pain, nausea, and diarrhea and to throw up.
Important Information from the CDC
ZIKA Virus
Zika virus disease (Zika) is a disease caused by Zika virus that is spread to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito. The most common symptoms of Zika are fever, rash, joint pain, and conjunctivitis (red eyes). The illness is usually mild with symptoms lasting for several days to a week after being bitten by an infected mosquito. People usually don’t get sick enough to go to the hospital, and they very rarely die of Zika. For this reason, many people might not realize they have been infected. Once a person has been infected, he or she is likely to be protected from future infections. For more information, below is the link to Zika Virus on the Center for Disease Controls Website.