In the winter months, it seems few are safe from some kind of illness — flu, COVID-19, norovirus, colds. But there are things you can do to protect yourself from these respiratory and stomach viruses.

It may be difficult to make it through the season unscathed, there are some things you can do to protect yourself.

This fall saw an unusually high number of cases of “walking” or mycoplasma pneumonia, a mild pneumonia that typically causes a severe cough but less fatigue than more serious forms of the disease.