A simple flu for you can mean a heart attack or stroke for an elder at home.

In Health for You, Dr Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan warns how infections can sometimes cost life itself.

She also speaks on some usual ones and some which are easily preventable, but mistakes we make daily, including the way we cook our food, lead to dangerous infections.

A lot more on infectious diseases in this week’s podcast of Health For You.

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