Prevent Flu: Go to Work or Stay in Bed? - WebMD

It's a problem: Kids and adults going to work when they should stay home. Around any school or office, you hear them coughing and sneezing. Yet experts’ flu prevention advice is clear: Stay home when you are sick.

The problem is, "With a lot of flu viruses, people can be infectious before they have symptoms," says Erica Brownfield, MD, a professor of internal medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta....