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Wash your hands frequently. After shopping, (touching cart handles) touching gas nozzles, door handles, escalator and stairway railings, before and after touching food, before and after touching patients as a health care provider, administering to sick family or friends.

#2 Advise others to cover their cough with inside of elbow (not their hands) to prevent droplet inhalation, or to stay home with flu

# 3 GET IMMUNIZED against the flu every year, preferably early fall, October is great. Fall = Flu shot!

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