is in the air—and so are respiratory droplets, damn it. When your throat starts to hurt, your nose starts to run, and getting back into bed seems even more enticing than it usually does, you may have ... .
But what? “It can be hard to tell a cold and flu apart,” says , the director of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the chief health officer for Montgomery County, Maryland.
We enlisted her to help you figure out what ails you and what you can do about it.Both are respiratory illnesses, which means they affect the lungs and other organs that are responsible for breathing.
But while flu is caused by influenza viruses only, a cold can be caused by more than 200 different viruses, according to Davis.
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