Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Your area?

On 24/01/2017 20:54, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Chris if you can get it together enough to post here it is not 'flu.
Maybe you have a very heavy cold or somesuch, but actual 'flu nah !

'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On 24/01/17 21:44, soup wrote:
On 24/01/2017 20:54, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement..

Chris if you can get it together enough to post here it is not 'flu.
Maybe you have a very heavy cold or somesuch, but actual 'flu nah !


True.

I have had flu twice, ever.

In both cases, I ran a massive fever and could just about get out of bed
for the bog: if I dosed up on ibuprofen and paracetamol 30 minutes
before. Without those, violent shivering made it impossible.

In the first case I put something like £100 extra on my heating bill
(1997 ish) with the ceiling heating on flat out. And I hallucinated.

Luckily I had a certain amount of food in the fridge and freezer.

In both cases I was laid out for a solid week, did not return to work
for 2 weeks and felt crap on the 3rd week. Any effort at all would
drench me in sweat.

Not nice. And easy to understand how it kills the elderly - I was 20s
and 40s in each case.

soup wrote:
On 24/01/2017 20:54, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly
got something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40
years, but it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Chris if you can get it together enough to post here it is not 'flu.
Maybe you have a very heavy cold or somesuch, but actual 'flu nah !

'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you pick it up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

soup wrote:
On 24/01/2017 20:54, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Chris if you can get it together enough to post here it is not 'flu.
Maybe you have a very heavy cold or somesuch, but actual 'flu nah !

What makes you so certain?

Many infectious illnesses vary in severity according to the "dosage" of the
infecting virus and to the subtype of the virus. Some flus are worse than
others and we all vary in our ability to deal with infection.

Saying "it can't be flu because mine was much worse" just does add up. All
you're doing is relating your personal experience of a flu infection with a
particular subtype.

Tim
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In article , Mr Pounder Esquire
wrote:
soup wrote:
On 24/01/2017 20:54, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly
got something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years,
but it's making up for lost time. Jeez! 8 days now and still no sign
of improvement.

Chris if you can get it together enough to post here it is not 'flu.
Maybe you have a very heavy cold or somesuch, but actual 'flu nah !

'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup. I had flu in the year 2000 and will never
forget it :-( I will not put the details here as this is respectable
group. The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you
pick it up, then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it
up. I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have
done this. Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I had flu as a teenager around 60 years ago, I can remember feeling that
bad. Your description is much more like pneumonia - which I have had more
recently.

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On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:54:45 +0000, Chris wrote:

Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Your area?

Not flu.

The definition of flu I have seen is: "If you look out of the window and
see a 320 note pinned to the middle of your lawn, you don't feel like
going to get it".



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On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:23:29 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:54:45 +0000, Chris wrote:

Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly
got something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years,
but it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Your area?

Not flu.

The definition of flu I have seen is: "If you look out of the window and
see a 320 note pinned to the middle of your lawn, you don't feel like
going to get it".

Should say "£20" of course.




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On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:02:04 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

soup wrote:
On 24/01/2017 20:54, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly
got something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40
years, but it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Chris if you can get it together enough to post here it is not 'flu.
Maybe you have a very heavy cold or somesuch, but actual 'flu nah !

'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you pick it up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

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Tim+ wrote:
soup wrote:
On 24/01/2017 20:54, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Chris if you can get it together enough to post here it is not 'flu.
Maybe you have a very heavy cold or somesuch, but actual 'flu nah !

What makes you so certain?

Many infectious illnesses vary in severity according to the "dosage" of the
infecting virus and to the subtype of the virus. Some flus are worse than
others and we all vary in our ability to deal with infection.

Saying "it can't be flu because mine was much worse" just does add up.

Should have been "doesn't" of course.

All
you're doing is relating your personal experience of a flu infection with a
particular subtype.

Tim



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On 24/01/2017 22:23, Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:54:45 +0000, Chris wrote:

Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Your area?

Not flu.

The definition of flu I have seen is: "If you look out of the window and
see a 320 note pinned to the middle of your lawn, you don't feel like
going to get it".




When i had flu I couldn't have got the £20 note if you held it out for me.

I went down stairs one morning with the sniffles and four hours later it
took me an hour to get back up stairs to the loo and then I went to bed.
I didn't get back down for four days.

"soup" wrote in message
...
On 24/01/2017 20:54, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Chris if you can get it together enough to post here it is not 'flu.

You're just plain wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza
says it can vary from mild to severe.

Maybe you have a very heavy cold or somesuch, but actual 'flu nah !

'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

Chris Wrote in message:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Your area?


Not a comment on flu as such, but being the wrong side of fifty, I
now find that I can no longer "work through" heavy colds. A
"cold" that requires 4 days to recover usually needs one spent
wrapped up at home.

Phil
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:25:26 -0000, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James
Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:


On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you pick it
up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

That's because even flus think you are a total asshole, Birdbrain!

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asshole.
Unfortunately I am quite old and have never had flu in my life because I'm
so stupid.
--
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On 24 Jan 2017 22:23:29 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

The definition of flu I have seen is: "If you look out of the window and
see a 320 note pinned to the middle of your lawn, you don't feel like
going to get it".

First get to the window...

All I can say is I had a reaction to this years flu jab, tender red
and raised at the injection site. Don't normally have any reaction.

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On 1/24/2017 5:18 PM, charles wrote:

I had flu as a teenager around 60 years ago, I can remember feeling that
bad. Your description is much more like pneumonia - which I have had more
recently.

It's not uncommon for flu victims to also develop pneumonia. It's
happened to me, and I hope nothing even half so bad ever happens again.

In article ,
says...

On 24/01/2017 20:54, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Chris if you can get it together enough to post here it is not 'flu.

I was about 14 in the late 50s when I had the 'flu. My
mother had it at the same time.

As my father died when I was 3?, the only other member of
the household was my 10 year old brother on whom we relied
for liquids - I don't recall either of us being interested
in food - and, as we lived in a house with an outside loo,
frequent potty emptying duties.

No way could I or mum have made it to the stairs, let alone
descend them - both of us were as weak as kittens.

Eventually, my brother succombed to the same 'flu bug but,
fortunately, after both mum & I were on the way to recovery,
so we were able to able to care for him.

What would have been the outcome if all three of us had gone
down with the 'flu at the same time, I dread to think ...


--

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In article , soup
scribeth thus
On 24/01/2017 20:54, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Chris if you can get it together enough to post here it is not 'flu.
Maybe you have a very heavy cold or somesuch, but actual 'flu nah !

'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

Yes very nasty - so nasty that people don't want to talk about 1918!..


We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.




Ere yer go!, interesting reading to make you feel better.

That you weren't around 99 years ago


Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/


"But one stretch of RNA can wreak a lot of havoc. Spanish influenza
killed about 50 million people (estimates vary), including 675,000 in
the United States, and up to 40 percent of the worlds population was
stricken with the flu. Unusually for the flu, the pandemic afflicted the
young more than the old. Scientists have since established that the
disease triggered an overreaction by the immune system, thus turning a
young persons robust immune system against itself. (Bird flu and swine
flu were similarly more deadly in young people.) Victims lungs
overflowed with fluid while their skin, deprived of oxygen, became
mottled and discolored. Many sufferers came down with severe nosebleeds€”

some spewed blood out of their nostrils with such force that nurses had
to duck to avoid the flow. Those unable to recover eventually drowned in
their own bodily fluids".


http://www.slate.com/articles/health.../2012/12/spani
sh_flu_mystery_why_don_t_scientists_understand_the _1918_flu_even_after.h
tml
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In message , Chris writes

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!

Ignoring the flu-no flu argument, yes, brother near Cambridge and wife
here in NE Scotland both suffered quite badly before/during Christmas,
and both claim they still have the tail end of it. Neither had seen the
other for months.

Interestingly, wife's brother had a slightly milder version, as did I,
my theory being that, by the time we caught it, we had built up a
partial resistance.

--
Graeme

'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you pick it
up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

Correction! You've been lucky so far.

On 24/01/17 22:13, Tim+ wrote:
soup wrote:
On 24/01/2017 20:54, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Chris if you can get it together enough to post here it is not 'flu.
Maybe you have a very heavy cold or somesuch, but actual 'flu nah !

What makes you so certain?

Many infectious illnesses vary in severity according to the "dosage" of the
infecting virus and to the subtype of the virus. Some flus are worse than
others and we all vary in our ability to deal with infection.

Saying "it can't be flu because mine was much worse" just doesn't add up. All
you're doing is relating your personal experience of a flu infection with a
particular subtype.

Tim

Correct. Flu ranges from 'a tad worse than a cold with a lot of achey
muscles' to 'a fatal infectious illness that keeps you in bed for two
weeks, and which sometimes you never leave'.

I get regular flue injections, but they only reduce the severity...



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On Tuesday, 24 January 2017 20:56:27 UTC, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Your area?

Yes, it's going round.
Took me a fortnight tog et over it.
Known as the "Queen's Cough".

En el artículo , Chris
escribió:

Your area?

Awful hacking cough doing the rounds, wheezing like a 40-a-day-for-
30-years smoker, bringing up gallons of green crap, takes about three
weeks (yes, really) to clear). People being told that it's a virus, and
not to go to the doc as antibiotics won't work.

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On 25/01/17 08:31, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , Chris
escribió:

Your area?

Awful hacking cough doing the rounds, wheezing like a 40-a-day-for-
30-years smoker, bringing up gallons of green crap, takes about three
weeks (yes, really) to clear). People being told that it's a virus, and
not to go to the doc as antibiotics won't work.

Is it fatal?

:-)

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"Saki"

You been eating dodgy game birds at all? Apparently there is a lot of bird
flu about just now.
I'msure there has to be a joke in this but I cannot think of it at the
moment.
There are however a lot of viral infections about, and it does not really
matter what label it has its still going to be a real pain until your imune
ystem finishes it off.

Brian

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Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Your area?

To be fair on flu, if you have encountered a similar one recently then it
just appears as a cold with a few shivers and aches and pains, but if its
one you have no immunity to, it can be very bad indeed. I remember the
Asian Flu and it very nearly did for me, so yes, it can be anywhere on the
spectrum as they mutate.
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On 24/01/2017 20:54, Chris wrote:
Hi all,

Anyone know if there's an epidemic broken out as yet? I've certainly got
something and if it isn't flu then FKWII. First time in 40 years, but
it's making up for lost time. Jeez!
8 days now and still no sign of improvement.

Chris if you can get it together enough to post here it is not 'flu.
Maybe you have a very heavy cold or somesuch, but actual 'flu nah !

'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On Wednesday, 25 January 2017 08:44:23 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
You been eating dodgy game birds at all? Apparently there is a lot of bird
flu about just now.
I'msure there has to be a joke in this but I cannot think of it at the
moment.

I recon it's man flu he's been gobling off some men, he thought they were birds but they were ladyboys ;-)


There are however a lot of viral infections about, and it does not really
matter what label it has its still going to be a real pain until your imune
ystem finishes it off.

Well we all know what the real cause of this is. BREXIT !

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:28:36 -0000, Bod wrote:


'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you pick it
up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

Correction! You've been lucky so far.

I get virtually no colds or flus when those around me do.

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On 25/01/17 14:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:28:36 -0000, Bod wrote:


'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you pick it
up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

Correction! You've been lucky so far.

I get virtually no colds or flus when those around me do.


I seem to be fairly cold resistant these days. I get a bit of one, but
not enough to stop me working (desk job) after a couple of pills - then
it goes away. Or lingers for a week, but never gets bad.

Last 'flu was about 2009.

Last food poisoning was around 2006.

Fingers crossed...

On 25/01/2017 14:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:28:36 -0000, Bod wrote:


'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you pick it
up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

Correction! You've been lucky so far.

I get virtually no colds or flus when those around me do.

I've only had flu once. You're just as likely as anyone else when a new
virulent strain of flu comes out.

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:43:13 -0000, Bod wrote:

On 25/01/2017 14:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:28:36 -0000, Bod wrote:


'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you pick it
up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

Correction! You've been lucky so far.

I get virtually no colds or flus when those around me do.

I've only had flu once. You're just as likely as anyone else when a new
virulent strain of flu comes out.

Depends on how you define flu. There are viruses all the way from mild cold to bedridden flu. I get none, others get lots. So I'm not just as likely.

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On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:09:57 -0500, S Viemeister wrote:

It's not uncommon for flu victims to also develop pneumonia. It's
happened to me, and I hope nothing even half so bad ever happens again.

Diagnosis now confirmed as flu as a consequence of which I've also now
got shingles due to my immune system being damaged. I'm in the North
West. The doc told me this is a particularly nasty strain and won't
resolve within 2-3 weeks (plus recouperation after that) so looks like I
have a great rest-of-the-winter to look forward to.

"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 25/01/17 14:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:28:36 -0000, Bod wrote:


'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you pick it
up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have
done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

Correction! You've been lucky so far.

I get virtually no colds or flus when those around me do.

I seem to be fairly cold resistant these days.

Yeah, me too. Didn't have one for more than 30 years.

Then just got one last week. This one is pretty aggressive
with someone I see most weeks ending up in hospital with
pneumonia for a couple of days. Didn't happen to me, but
it was rather worse than normally happened even when I
used to get them.

I get a bit of one, but not enough to stop me working (desk job) after a
couple of pills -

I almost never bother with any pills and didn't this time either.

Did feel pretty seedy one day, but not enough to see me do anything
other than just laze around not doing anything much that day.

This one had lots of bouts of sneezing and that got so
bad that after a few days the lungs were a bit sore just
from the sneezing. Don't recall having had that before.
I did wonder if it was the start of the pneumonia that
that other person had ended up with but the chest
pain went away in a day or so.

then it goes away. Or lingers for a week, but never gets bad.

Last 'flu was about 2009.

Last food poisoning was around 2006.

Mine was more than 40 years ago, from a restaurant.
Never had one from stuff at home.

Fingers crossed...

On 25/01/2017 15:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:43:13 -0000, Bod wrote:

On 25/01/2017 14:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:28:36 -0000, Bod wrote:


'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you
pick it
up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have
done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

Correction! You've been lucky so far.

I get virtually no colds or flus when those around me do.

I've only had flu once. You're just as likely as anyone else when a new
virulent strain of flu comes out.

Depends on how you define flu. There are viruses all the way from mild
cold to bedridden flu. I get none, others get lots. So I'm not just as
likely.

Flu is flu (as far as I know). When you get it, it floors you.

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:30:23 -0000, Bod wrote:

On 25/01/2017 15:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:43:13 -0000, Bod wrote:

On 25/01/2017 14:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:28:36 -0000, Bod wrote:


'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you
pick it
up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have
done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

Correction! You've been lucky so far.

I get virtually no colds or flus when those around me do.

I've only had flu once. You're just as likely as anyone else when a new
virulent strain of flu comes out.

Depends on how you define flu. There are viruses all the way from mild
cold to bedridden flu. I get none, others get lots. So I'm not just as
likely.

Flu is flu (as far as I know). When you get it, it floors you.

There are varying degrees of everything, including colds, and presumably flus. The only time I've been floored is eating something that disagreed with me.

--
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein

"Bod" wrote in message
...
On 25/01/2017 15:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:43:13 -0000, Bod wrote:

On 25/01/2017 14:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:28:36 -0000, Bod wrote:


'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu
"

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in
the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you
pick it
up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have
done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

Correction! You've been lucky so far.

I get virtually no colds or flus when those around me do.

I've only had flu once. You're just as likely as anyone else when a new
virulent strain of flu comes out.

Depends on how you define flu. There are viruses all the way from mild
cold to bedridden flu. I get none, others get lots. So I'm not just as
likely.

Flu is flu (as far as I know).

Yes, its only flu if it's a flu virus involved.

When you get it, it floors you.

Nope. There are mild strains and severe ones. And if you have had
flu recently and get infected with a closely related one, you may well
have enough immunity to not get anything too dramatic in the way
of symptoms too.

The claim that if you don't get severe symptoms it isnt flu is just plain
ignorant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza

"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:30:23 -0000, Bod wrote:

On 25/01/2017 15:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:43:13 -0000, Bod wrote:

On 25/01/2017 14:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:28:36 -0000, Bod wrote:


'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been
trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu
"

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in
the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you
pick it
up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have
done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

Correction! You've been lucky so far.

I get virtually no colds or flus when those around me do.

I've only had flu once. You're just as likely as anyone else when a new
virulent strain of flu comes out.

Depends on how you define flu. There are viruses all the way from mild
cold to bedridden flu. I get none, others get lots. So I'm not just as
likely.

Flu is flu (as far as I know). When you get it, it floors you.

There are varying degrees of everything, including colds, and presumably
flus. The only time I've been floored is eating something that disagreed
with me.

I did get one infection with weird symptoms. The whole damned room
was spinning even when sitting in an arm chair and it was tricky walking
because of that effect. Didn't last that long, only a few days.

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:09:07 -0000 (UTC), Chris
wrote:


Diagnosis now confirmed as flu as a consequence of which I've also now
got shingles due to my immune system being damaged. I'm in the North
West. The doc told me this is a particularly nasty strain and won't
resolve within 2-3 weeks (plus recouperation after that) so looks like I
have a great rest-of-the-winter to look forward to.
I've often wished I could hibernate like a bear before now and avoid
things. Shut down before the Christmas shopping spree gets under way
and wake in at the end of Febuary when people snorting and sneezing
everywhere have got over it.

G.Harman

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 17:46:24 +0000, damduck-egg wrote:

I've often wished I could hibernate like a bear before now and avoid
things. Shut down before the Christmas shopping spree gets under way
and wake in at the end of Febuary when people snorting and sneezing
everywhere have got over it.

I met a bloke once who claimed to do precisely that! I think I'd be more
inclined to just bugger off to somewhere else nice and warm.

In article , James Wilkinson Sword
scribeth thus
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:43:13 -0000, Bod wrote:

On 25/01/2017 14:45, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:28:36 -0000, Bod wrote:


'Flu is a horrible, very serious, disease that has been trivialised
with everyone who has the sniffles saying " ah a touch of the 'flu "

We have noticed an outbreak of the squits in our house and in the
hospital where the ughlaws are but no rhinoviruses.

On this I agree with soup.
I had flu in the year 2000 and will never forget it :-(
I will not put the details here as this is respectable group.
The saying is that if you see somebody drop a £20 note and you pick it
up,
then you have not got the flu. I would not have picked it up.
I went back to work after a week in bed and really should not have done
this.
Seems that there is something called mild flu?

I do not get flus.

Correction! You've been lucky so far.

I get virtually no colds or flus when those around me do.

I've only had flu once. You're just as likely as anyone else when a new
virulent strain of flu comes out.



Depends on how you define flu. There are viruses all the way from mild cold to
bedridden flu. I get none, others get lots. So I'm not just as likely.

So you get illnesses that are unknown to medical science then?..
--
Tony Sayer