Self treatment
As a UK citizen I've found it interesting that flu problems mainly affect people in two ways.
You get a fever and your heart races so you may get hit with a heart attack if in bad health or over 40.
Or you get a secondary bacterial infection like pneumonia which settles in your lungs because you're not breathing deeply and the lungs becomes a lovely wet nest for Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Seemingly due to the latest research in older people who go into hospital and get pneumonia, this is due to your mouth being a damn good source for these bacteria, so daily brushing with a good antibacterial mouthwash is the order of the day.
I'm told it'll also reduce the risk of Heart disease. Why didn't my Mum tell me this to get me to brush my teeth when I was younger? ;-)
I'm amazed that shops look at me with bafflement as I ask them what measures they do to prevent their staff or the customers getting infections.
My local library get in hundreds of books, DVDs, etc every day, my Optician passes glasses and other equipment around to dozens of people a day and yet they don't even bother to clean the equipment between customers.
Gee, no wonder the Flu passes around so quickly.
Face masks don't work. They're for stopping people passing on their infection not preventing you from getting it!
If you can get yourself the Streptococcus injection (it lasts 10 years seemingly) from your local health centre. It's free to most people and it'll help prevent you getting serious pneumonia should you get the Flu. Odd that the government isn't promoting this.
Lastly I've got myself a cheap silver based cloth from Tesco, silver kills bacteria and some viruses and I'm prepared to start carrying it around to clean surfaces I have to touch in public Toilets.
Maybe I when I go shopping I should get the staff to drop coins into it and clean them that way?
I may sound a little paranoid, but the Swine flu is starting to develop a resistance to the Tamiflu drug and Winter is coming...