{"id":458075,"date":"2010-03-22T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f84\/text-messages-cdc-41183\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:19:50","slug":"text-messages-from-cdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/458075","title":{"rendered":"Text Messages from CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.21.10 04:32 PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/cellphone09.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><font face=\"times new roman,times,serif\"><font size=\"3\">I know it&#8217;s officially spring, but I wanted to remind you that H1N1 flu  (also known as swine flu) is still a risk and you should take steps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/h1n1flu\/infectioncontrol\/\" >to stay healthy<\/a>. Even though the H1N1 outbreak in  the U.S. was mild over the winter, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/en\/\" >World Health Organization<\/a>  still considers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/csr\/disease\/swineflu\/7th_meeting_ihr\/en\/index.html\" >H1N1  a pandemic<\/a>. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"times new roman,times,serif\"><font size=\"3\">Luckily for us, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\" >Centers  for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> (CDC) has been providing information since the initial  H1N1 outbreak last year. CDC uses traditional channels and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/SocialMedia\/Campaigns\/H1N1\/index.html#TextingPilot\" >social media<\/a> to get the message  out, but I have found their text messaging pilot to be very interesting.  To subscribe, you text HEALTH to 87000 and you will receive four  introduction messages and then approximately three text messages a week  containing health information. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"times new roman,times,serif\"><font size=\"3\">CDC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/SocialMedia\/Campaigns\/H1N1\/index.html#TextingPilot\" >text   messaging pilot<\/a> started in September as a three-month  pilot, but it&#8217;s still in operation. Recently, CDC expanded the focus of  the pilot and now offers health information about other health topics  like heart disease and smoking. CDC is thinking about making the text  messaging pilot permanent and they are interested to hear what you have  to say.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"times new roman,times,serif\"><font size=\"3\">What do you think of CDC&#8217;s text messaging pilot?<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/text_messages_from_cdc\" >Gov Gab: Your U.S. Government Blog &#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.21.10 04:32 PM I know it&#8217;s officially spring, but I wanted to remind you that H1N1 flu (also known as swine flu) is still a risk and you should take steps to stay healthy. Even though the H1N1 outbreak in the U.S. was mild over the winter, the World Health Organization still considers H1N1 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}