If you have cold or flu symptoms, you can't donate because you don't want those viruses to be transmitted through your blood products.

But these receptors are rare in the upper portion of the respiratory system. For the viruses to be transmitted efficiently, they have to multiply in the upper portion of the respiratory system so that they can be transmitted by coughing and sneezing.

I just know he had a stomach virus or flu symptoms last week and sometimes those things stick with you. And when you try to work through them and play at the level that he expects to play at, sometimes you don't let yourself get back (to being) completely healthy.

Only birds can be infected. There is no bird flu strain that can be transmitted to humans in Dagestan.

So far, our surveillance teams have not found anyone with flu-like symptoms.

More often with a cold or a flu-type symptom, you may have a fever or a temperature that you won't have with allergies.