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e-Bug, operated by UKHSA, is a health education programme that equips children and young people to prevent infection and respond to AMR.

Joined March 2015
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✅ 5 bite-sized modules ✅ Around 1 hour to complete ✅ Learn at your own pace ✅ Certificate of completion 🔗 Access the training here: bit.ly/3UkQay6
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📢 New FREE IPC Training for Educational & Early Years Settings Designed for teachers, school staff, nursery practitioners, childminders, and other childcare professionals, this training provides practical infection prevention and control knowledge to help keep children safe.
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Enter the e-Bug Creative Challenge for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2026! Encourage students to create posters, comic, drawing, or artwork to raise awareness of antimicrobial resistance and help keep antibiotics working. Deadline: 22 November 2026 bit.ly/3VGu3z0
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📢 Get ready for World AMR Awareness Week 2026! Encourage Students to take part in the #EbugWAAW2026 Creative Challenge by creating posters, comics, drawings or digital artwork about antimicrobial resistance. 🗓️ 22 November 2026 🔗 bit.ly/3VGu3z0 #KeepAntibioticsWorking
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Health education goes beyond the classroom. Through engaging PSHE activities, pupils can learn practical skills to help them make informed decisions about their health and wellbeing, now and in the future. Explore: KS3: bit.ly/4sprmBE kS4: bit.ly/4yYVw0S
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💊 Help students understand how to keep antibiotics working for future generations. Our new PSHE resource, co-produced with the PSHE Association, covers vaccination, antimicrobial resistance, and infection prevention. Explore : KS3: bit.ly/4sprmBE #HealthEducation
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Wondering what's most likely behind your coughs and sneezes? In this week's #UKHSAVirusWatch, Ruth McCabe, Principal Epidemiologist at UKHSA, explains the latest data. 📊
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Young people are exposed to health information every day, but how do they know what to trust? Our new PSHE resource encourages critical thinking, discussion and evidence-based learning around vaccination and public health. Explore KS3 & KS4: bit.ly/4yYVw0S #Amr
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🎨 Get involved in the e-Bug Creative Challenge during World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) 2026! Students can create posters, comics, drawings or digital artwork to raise awareness of antimicrobial resistance. 🗓️ 22 November 2026 🔗 bit.ly/3VGu3z0 #WAAW2026 #amr
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📢 New PSHE resource alert! Developed in line with the updated PSHE curriculum and co-produced with the PSHE Association, this resource covers vaccination, responsible antibiotic use, AMR, infection prevention and informed health decision-making. 🔗 KS3: e-bug.eu/ks3-phse-preventing…
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The e-Bug Health Educator course is tailored to #educators to help improve their knowledge about infection prevention, proper hygiene techniques and antibiotic use Join the e-Bug Health Educator Training course today! Explore: bit.ly/4ct4CqN
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🎨 There's still time to enter the #eBugWAAW2026 Creative Challenge! Help students explore antimicrobial resistance through creativity. 🖌️ Posters, drawings, comics & digital artwork welcome 🗓️ Deadline: 22 November 2026 🔗 bit.ly/3VGu3z0 #KeepAntibioticsWorking
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Looking for curriculum-aligned PSHE resources? Our new resource, developed with the PSHE Association, includes ready-to-use activities on: ✔ Vaccination ✔ Antibiotics & AMR ✔ Infection prevention ✔ Informed health decision-making Explore: e-bug.eu/ks4-phse-preventing…
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📢 New PSHE resource launched with the PSHE Association! Helping young people understand vaccination, antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention, while building confidence in health decision-making. Explore KS3 resource: e-bug.eu/ks3-phse-preventing… #AMR
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🧼 Microbes may be invisible, but they can spread quickly. Help students discover how germs move from person to person with our hands-on classroom activities, and learn why effective handwashing is one of the best ways to prevent infection. Explore: bit.ly/4mVUXyA
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Feeling under the weather with a cough, sore throat or temperature?🤧🌡️ Tell us how you're feeling in our FluSurvey and help build a clearer picture of illnesses across the UK.
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🦠 Antibiotics save lives, but they don't always work when they're overused or misused. Our new PSHE teaching resources help students explore antimicrobial resistance and understand why responsible antibiotic use matters. Watch this space for launch date. #AMR #Education
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🦷 Did you know tooth decay is a leading cause of hospital admissions among children aged 5–9? Our Early Years resources make learning about oral hygiene fun, helping children understand the importance of keeping their teeth clean and healthy. 🔗 bit.ly/41BqQFf
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Last winter only 50.9% of primary school children in the #WestMidlands region got their #FluVaccine #HealthProtection Consultant James Chipwete urges parents to sign their #children's consent forms to make sure they're protected against #flu this #winter bit.ly/ChildFluVaxUptake2025…
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📣It's International Infection Prevention Week! Help students understand how infections spread with engaging, hands-on classroom activities. Why not try e-Bug's popular "snot gun" activity to demonstrate how respiratory droplets travel? 🔗 Explore: bit.ly/49b9p1N
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