Because each infectious disease behaves differently, there’s a protocol – put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and the Illinois Department of Health – as to how each one is to be handled, she said. Although the bigger scarier disease is coronavirus, “I would say I would be more worried about influenza,” said Onwuta, adding that the most important thing we can do to prevent its spread is simply “washing your hands.”
Crosby: Fox Valley workers on the front line against infectious disease outbreak
