Wash your hands, not share food, cover your mouth when you cough, have updated vaccines, there's a lot of ways to avoid contamination to be honest.
The original name is from the Mohegan word "quinnitukqut" which means "at the long tidal river."
The name was transliterated sort of poorly (see: Nippon vs. Japan for another example... among thousands) by the English speaking folks of the time and it became Connecticut when spelled but the pronunciation was a little harder to fudge, it seems.
