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Tomorrow HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will announce the winner of the Flu.gov PSA contest. The goal of the contest? To “tap into [the] nation’s creativity” to help prevent the spread of H1N1. Anyone over 14 was eligible to submit an entertaining 15- or 30- or 60-second video promoting flu prevention and the Flu.gov site. HHS judges picked their top-ten favorites, which where then submitted to a public vote on YouTube.

You can watch the 231 entries at the contest’s YouTube site. The ten finalists included a toothbrush prank, an H1N1 rap, and a guy in a yellow hazmat suit.

Be among the first to find out who won the $2500 prize by checking Flu.gov’s Twitter stream or Facebook page. The winning video will appear on national TV.

One of the top-ten videos [chrisappix / YouTube]

[Update 23 September 2009: As Rekha noted in her comment, the H1N1 rap took the prize. You can watch it and find the embedding code here. NPR's Health Blog reports on rapper Dr. Clarke's "health hop" habit here.]