Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
Wash your hands vigorously and often with soap and water for at least 15 seconds, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are also effective.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.
Try to avoid close contact with people who are sick. Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.
If you get sick, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
Monday, May 4, 2009
SWINE FLU PREVENTION
personally, i'm not all that concerned but measures must still be taken to avoid getting sick. here's what the center for disease control recommends:
