Percentage of U.S. adults reporting having the flu/cold by gender in October 2012

This statistic illustrates the average percentage of U.S. adults reporting having the flu or a cold on any given day as of Ocotber 2012, sorted by gender. In October 2012, 7.6 percent of the female respondents reported to have caught a cold, while the percentage for male respondents amounted to 6.6 percent.