6 Easy Ways To Make Everyone Around You Sick

6 Easy Ways To Make Everyone Around You Sick

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By Erin Hicks

Feel the sniffles coming on? The cold and flu season is upon us, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 5 to 20 percent of U.S. residents get the flu each year and many more catch the common cold. Once you do come down with a cold or the flu, you become a powerful germ spreader with the potential to make your friends, family members, poor unwitting coworkers and countless others sick.

And, if you do all the wrong things, you can also make yourself even sicker.

Here are six things you can do to keep yourself sick while infecting those around you -- and expert tips for what you really should do to keep from spreading germs.

1. Ignore Your Body When You Feel Like You’re Getting Sicker

6 Easy Ways To Make Everyone Around You Sick

"6 Easy Ways To Make Everyone Around You Sick" originally appeared on Everyday Health

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