At choo Is It a cold or the flu
When your nose is blocked, your eyes are watery, your throat is sore. you are coughing and sneezing constantly, and you are shivering, then you have influenza, or the flu. Or is it just a common cold? The symptoms of both a cold and the flu are very similar, and very often the two illnesses are confused.
People get both illnesses in more or less the same way. A person sneezing or coughing transmits the infection through the air. Sometimes people with the virus wipe their noses or eyes with their fingers, and then touch objects around them, such as a doorknob, a telephone, a keyboard or any other everyday object. Other people come into contact with these items with viruses on them, and pick up the viruses that way.