• Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue or sleeve.

• Put your used tissue in a wastebasket.

• Clean your hands after coughing or sneezing.

• Stay home from work or school if you are ill with respiratory symptoms or fever.

• If you are in a flu shot priority group, call your health care provider and at least be put on a list for the flu vaccine when and if it becomes available.

• If you are 5 to 49 years old and otherwise healthy, ask your doctor about the FluMist nasal vaccine, which is available in some places.
Source: Maine Department of Health and Human Services