The state Department of Health has released a new series of influenza education videos, featuring students in grades 4–6 talking about the flu, “going viral,” prevention and pandemic preparedness in a series of skits.
Highlights, according to a press release, include the “Blue Flu Rap” and an interview with a local family caught overseas and falling ill during the early days of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

Screen shot from the DOH’s “Blue Flu Rap” video, Dec. 23, 2011.
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