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A screen shot of USA Today's graphic showing the comparison of flu and Ebola symptoms.

(USA Today)

Flu

How you get it: People with the flu can spread it to others by talking, coughing or sneezing. The droplets can travel up to 6 feet. It is contagious. You also can get it by touching surfaces that someone with the flu has touched.

Symptoms: Fever, feeling feverish or having chills, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches and fatigue. Children also might have vomiting and diarrhea.

Prevention: Get a flu shot, wash your hands frequently, stay away from people who are sick, stay home if you are sick, cover your nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze.

Will you get it?: Of the three illnesses, you are most likely to get the flu. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it will kill about 3,000 people in the United States a year.

Enterovirus

How you get it: Having close contact with an infected person, touching objects or surfaces with the virus on them, changing diapers of an infected person.

Symptoms: Fever, runny nose, sneezing, cough, skin rash, mouth blisters, body and muscle aches.

Prevention: Wash your hands frequently with soap and water, avoid close contact such as touching and shaking hands with people who are sick, clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces.

Will you get it?: You are less likely to be infected with this virus, than the flu. The virus has been around for decades. The D68 strain is new, primarily affects children and is attributed to five deaths thus far.

Ebola

How you get it: Having contact with the blood or body fluids of someone already infected, having contact with objects such as needles or syringes that have been contaminated and having contact with infected animals, primarily by eating the meat.

Symptoms: Fever of more than 101.5 degrees F, severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, unexplained bleeding or bruising.

Prevention: Do not travel to the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea where there is a widespread outbreak. Avoid contact with an infected person and his or her blood and body fluids.

Will you get it?: It is not likely unless you meet the very specific contamination criteria - primarily having traveled in West Africa where there is an outbreak or had contact with a contaminated person.

USA Today has a graphic that shows the overlapping of symptoms of flu and Ebola that is pretty informative.