Health Check: how long should you stay away when you have a cold or the flu?
- Written by Nadia Charania, Senior Lecturer, Public Health, Auckland University of Technology
Symptoms of the flu generally develop more quickly and are more severe than the common cold.By txking/Shutterstock
Most adults get around two to three colds a year, and children get even more. In terms of the flu, there are around 3-5 million severe cases of influenza worldwide each year and 290,000 to 650,000 deaths.
The symptoms of a cold and the...
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