How Can You Get Seasonal, Swine or Bird Flu?
Seasonal (Common) Flu.
You can usually catch seasonal influenza A from humans, but also from ferrets and pigs (1). Seasonal influenza B usually affects humans and seals (13) and can cause epidemic but not pandemic (2). Seasonal influenza C rarely causes a severe disease and does not cause epidemic or pandemic (2).
You can catch viruses by:
- Your mouth, nose or eyes from an infected person (or animal) while he speaks, coughs, sneezes or kisses you
- Sharing eating utensils, food, glasses, napkins, towels, toys or other fomites with an infected person (or animal) and touching your mouth, nose or eyes with them
- Touching mouth, nose, eyes or hands of an infected person or touching surfaces, like doorknobs or computer keyboards, contaminated by viruses, and touching your mouth, nose or eyes thereafter.
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