1. Wash your hands thoroughly after touching anything.

2. Don't touch your nose, mouth, eyes, the nose or mouth or eyes of others, your private parts or the private parts of others. If you absolutely must touch any of these get someone else to do it.

3. Where a face mask at all times: at home, at work, at the store, in the bank.

4. Never breathe air that may have been exhaled by a flu victim, no matter how distant.

Follow these simple rules and you might not get sick.