The Community Preparedness Webinar Series provides up-to-date information on community preparedness topics and resources available to citizens, community organizations, and Citizen Corps Councils. These webinars will feature new community preparedness topics several times each month and are free to the public. In addition to airing live, each webinar will be recorded and viewable after it […]

ReadyWisconsin launched its new website on March 10. ReadyWisconsin is an initiative of Wisconsin Emergency Management designed to educate and empower Wisconsinites to prepare for and respond to all kinds of emergencies including natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks. To learn more, go to the ReadyWisconsin web site.

CDC has released revised estimates of cases of H1N1, hospitalizations and deaths given an additional month of data. The number of estimated cases is 47 million, 213,000 hospitalizations and nearly 10,000 deaths (these are all median figures). About 10% of the deaths have occurred in children and young adults under the age of 17. To […]

President Obama has declared 2009 H1N1 a national emergency making it  easier for U.S. medical facilities to handle a surge in flu patients by allowing the waiver of some requirements of Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health insurance programs. This declaration follows the announcement Friday by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that H1N1 is widespread […]

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) has confirmed the presence of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in a pig sample collected at the Minnesota State Fair submitted by the University of Minnesota. Additional samples are being tested. To learn more about this situation, go to the news release […]

This year’s seasonal flu materials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also include messaging to address the 2009 H1N1 flu (sometimes called “swine flu”) recommendations.  All materials are free for download—no printed versions are available. To learn more about these materials, go to the CDC web site.

In its sixth annual campaign, the Department of Homeland Security is presenting September as National Preparedness Month.  Once again, the Cooperative Extension Service, through EDEN, is a partner in this campaign. To learn more about this campaign, go to the EDEN web site.

An Emerald ash borer larva was discovered in the City of Franklin on August 27. The larva was sent to federal identifiers on August 27, and subsequently confirmed as EAB on August 28. To learn more about this issue, go to the news release from DATCP.

Governor Jim Doyle today issued an Executive Order declaring a State of Emergency due to current drought conditions as farmers feel the effects of long term shortage of rainfall. Some areas of the state have adequate soil moisture, but many farmers are experiencing drought conditions at a critical point in the growing season which could […]

One adult Emerald ash borer beetle was discovered during a routine inspection survey trap on the east side of the city of Kenosha on Monday, August 10, 2009 and subsequently confirmed as EAB on Wednesday, August 12. To learn more about this issue, go to the news release from DATCP.