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Staying Flu-Free When Everyone Else In The House Is Sick

I recently had the pleasure of getting the flu and being confined to a bed for the better part of 10 days. No, it wasn't H1N1, it was just the regular seasonal flu and it totally sucked. So living i...

How To: Flu-Proof Your Home
This Old House

Flu-mania is making people a little nuts. My mother leaves constant reminders to get a flu shot; at my office they've handed out masks, anti-bacterial gel and wipes with instructions to wipe down our...

9 Dangerous Home Habits

You think of your home as your safe place, your refuge from the world. Nothing can harm you there, right? Wrong! We're betting you do at least one of the things we've listed after the jump......

10 Preventive Home Tech Solutions for the Swine Flu Germaphobe

It's all over the news, people are chatting and emailing about the worries of a pandemic, eyeing sniffling strangers suspiciously despite facts that this is not the Black Plague (calm your worries and...

Antibacterial Wipes Bad...Superbad!

We're pretty sure most of our readers already know that using anti-bacterial soap isn't a recommended hygiene practice, since the germ killing formulas end up breeding drug resistant strains of staph ...

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