The Buchanan Family Medical Center encourages you to follow these everyday actions to stay healthy:

• 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 often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective.
   
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.
   
• Try to avoid close contact with sick people.

  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.

Click here or visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's flu website for more helpful information.

Information on this page obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention online