Aside from getting vaccinated (which everyone should), an important strategy to evading the flu is regularly washing your hands and avoiding contact with the sneezes, coughs, and snot of sick people. The logic behind this simple advice is that the influenza virus requires reasonably close contact with the fluids of a plainly sick person in order to jump into its next victim.
Study Finds It's Much Easier To Catch The Flu Than Previously Realized
Wochit, The News-Press
Sat, 01/20/2018 - 12:02am
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