How is the flu virus spread?

Influenza is spread quite easily. It's spread by droplets that occur with a person sneezes or coughs or otherwise opens up their mouth. And these droplets can span a distance of up to 6 feet and there's a lot of controversy about how long the flu virus can stay alive on a surface such as a countertop. But if you happen to touch the surface like that after somebody has coughed or sneezed or maybe rubbed their nose and then touch that service and then you yourself touch your eye, touch your mouth or somehow ingest that droplet of the virus now finds a new home and spreads to a new host. 2 to 3 days later you start feeling sick maybe with a high fever, body aches. And end up most often in the doctors office wondering what happened and how you got this virus. So yeah, it’s spread quite easily by fine droplets, sometimes ones you don’t even feel and can sometimes live for 10 to 15 [minutes], maybe even half an hour on a surface where you subconsciously touched the surface and then maybe touched your eye. So it is, it’s spread quite easily unfortunately.