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COLD AND FLU CARE
This Season’s Flu Shot
Should you get a flu shot? Even if you normally don't get sick, you need one each year. Here's what you should know about this year's flu season and shot.
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COLD AND FLU CARE
Sleep Loss Increases Your Chance of Infection
Here’s more evidence that getting fewer than six hours of sleep is a bad idea, even if you’ve convinced yourself you’re fine.
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COLD AND FLU CARE
What Is the Common Cold?
Several different viruses can cause the common cold, with symptoms that tend to go away within 10 days. The common cold usually occurs in the winter and spring.
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COLD AND FLU CARE
What Is Sinusitis?
What is sinusitis? Generally, it’s when you have a “stuffy” nose. And, yes, that’s the bottom line, but you may need to find out why this is happening to you.
Cold and Flu Season Center
Learn about symptoms, treatment, and prevention of colds and the flu during the fall and winter months, their busiest time of the year.
Infectious Disease Center
What is an infectious disease? Learn about diseases caused by bacteria, how long pink eye is contagious, how you get MRSA, and much more.
What Is Pneumonia?
What is pneumonia? When air sacs in your lungs fill with fluid, you have pneumonia, usually a complication of the flu. Severe cases can be life-threatening.
Symptoms of a Cold
Symptoms of a cold appear 1 to 3 days after exposure to a virus and vary from person to person. Here's a list of cold symptoms and solutions.
What Everyone Should Know Know About Measles
Measles travels faster than the flu and may be the most contagious disease there is. You and your children will be safe if you get the vaccine.
Should You Feed a Cold and Starve a Fever?
Research suggests that your best move is to stay away from sweets when you’re sick, but you should eat something, especially if you have a virus.
What Is the Flu?
What the flu is may surprise you. It’s not one single virus. There are several types and frequent mutations. That’s why you need to get a flu shot every year.
Hand Washing Helps Control Infection Outbreaks
Washing your hands can help prevent colds, the flu, COVID-19, and other viruses. Here's what you should know.
Symptoms and Treatment of Whooping Cough
Learn the symptoms of whooping cough, along with prevention and treatments for whooping cough, to keep your family safe from this infectious disease.
Symptoms of the Flu
The flu can be a mild to severe illness. It a contagious respiratory illness caused by flu viruses. Learn more about the symptoms of the flu here.
What Is Strep Throat?
What is strep throat? About a third of children with a sore throat have a strep infection. The condition usually occurs between the ages of five and 15.
Where Germs Hide
Neckties and handbags carry more microbes than you might guess. Ditto your smartphone and keyboard. Here's what you should know about where germs can hide.
Home Remedies for Coughing
Try these home remedies for coughing. You probably have many of them in your kitchen. They are designed to soothe that nagging and persistent cough.