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  • Wash your hands often - The most common way to catch the flu is to touch your own eyes, nose or mouth with germy hands.
  • Keep your hands away from your face
  • Keep your distance when you are sick
  • Keep your distance if you are around someone else who is sick
  • Keep it to yourself
  • Stay home
  • Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when sneezing and coughing
  • You can still spread germs up to 7 days after getting sick
  • The "flu shot" -- an inactivated vaccine containing a killed virus (sometimes called TIV for “Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Vaccine”) that is given with as an injection. The flu shot is approved for people older than 6 months, including healthy people and people with chronic medical conditions.

Source: Florida Department of Health

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/disease_ctrl/immune/flu/flu_facts.htm

Retrieved October 30, 2006