Check Your Halloween Costume Before You Wear It Near a Flame

Halloween is one of the top days of the year for candle-related fires and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warns that Halloween-related injuries are among the most preventable of the year. Over the past three years, CPSC estimates that an annual average of 3,200 Halloween-related injuries were treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments. […]

CDC: Diagnosis for Flu

CDC

KEY POINTS Symptoms to look out for Your respiratory illness might be influenza (flu) if you have fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and/or fatigue. Some people may have vomiting and diarrhea, though this is more common in children. People may be sick with flu and have respiratory symptoms […]