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This is the second live chat ACH has hosted on its Facebook fan page, after a successful first chat earlier this month. That night parents posed more than 40 educated questions, and received answers drawing on ACH experience and advice based on American Academy of Pediatrics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. Thursday's session will give families a chance to ask more questions about the vaccine, Tamiflu and other H1N1-related topics. ACH will answer as many questions as time permits.
Interest in the ACH Facebook fan page has boomed, starting with just six fans a month ago. Today, more than 15,000 users are fans of the Arkansas Children's Hospital page on Facebook.
Who: ACH Director of Infection Control Craig Gilliam will take questions through the hospital's Facebook fan page. He'll provide context about the situation at ACH and tips and advice consistent with CDC guidelines.
When: Thursday, Oct. 29, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Central Standard Time.
Where: All parents need to do to access the chat is visit facebook.com/ArkansasChildrensHospital on their own computers. Once they find the page, they can post questions one-by-one on the wall.
Don't have Facebook? Parents can also send in questions via e-mail to achinfo@archildrens.org. A representative will try to respond to e-mails during the hours of the live chat.
ACH continues to see large numbers of children in its Emergency Room and clinics with flu-like symptoms, which are being treated as H1N1. Last week, the hospital admitted 25 children who had symptoms consistent with the flu.
Source: Arkansas Children's Hospital
