February 12

Helpful Flu Advice

With flu season in high gear, can we help to stop contamination of a virus to others? All doctors agree that the most effective way to prevent spreading illness is to stay home. If you have one of these symptoms:  fever, diarrhea, or vomiting; then you are contagious and will spread your illness to others.

Yes, Stanford Hospitals and the scientists concur that the most effective way to NOT spread your germs to others is for you to sneeze and/or cough into your elbow (clothing). This way the contamination of germs is soaked up by your clothing and contained with you and not spread to others. The experts agree that sneezing or coughing into your hand or a tissue will only spread your germs (virus/bacteria) as your hands are then spreading the virus/bacteria to all that you touch. But sneezing into your elbow (the vampire method) contains your germs on the material of your clothing and keeps a virus/bacteria from spreading.

Don’t use your hands to cover a sneeze or cough as you will only spread your germs onto your hands and then everything that you touch.

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Posted February 12, 2018 by 4jvrba in category 9th Grade Literature

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