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flu not flue ....
On 10/02/2019 21:58, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 08/02/2019 18:39, Andrew wrote: Exactly one week later I had a similar episode, with a bit of shivering for about a couple of hours, so I'm not sure if this was actual flu or just a bloody awful cold. I was hot and sweaty for the next three days with a nasty headache and feeling of nausea. My wife had 'flu once when we were on holiday. Not a bad case, was still able to talk Spanish to the doctor. Still had no energy, was just about able to sit in the carĀ* and groan when I raved about the scenery. When she got back to work she found that one of the kids she taught was dead. Andy Presumably not from flu though ?? |
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On 11/02/2019 07:41, Jimbo GM4DHJ ... wrote:
"Vir Campestris" wrote in message ... My wife had 'flu once when we were on holiday. Not a bad case, was still able to talk Spanish to the doctor. Still had no energy, was just about able to sit in the car and groan when I raved about the scenery. When she got back to work she found that one of the kids she taught was dead. Andy how reassuring .......thanks If you're reading this you don't have 'flu. Andy |
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On 11/02/2019 14:14, Andrew wrote:
On 10/02/2019 21:58, Vir Campestris wrote: On 08/02/2019 18:39, Andrew wrote: Exactly one week later I had a similar episode, with a bit of shivering for about a couple of hours, so I'm not sure if this was actual flu or just a bloody awful cold. I was hot and sweaty for the next three days with a nasty headache and feeling of nausea. My wife had 'flu once when we were on holiday. Not a bad case, was still able to talk Spanish to the doctor. Still had no energy, was just about able to sit in the carĀ* and groan when I raved about the scenery. When she got back to work she found that one of the kids she taught was dead. Andy Presumably not from flu though ?? You presume wrong. Influenza is a killer. Andy |
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In article , Vir Campestris vir.campestris@
invalid.invalid scribeth thus On 08/02/2019 18:39, Andrew wrote: Exactly one week later I had a similar episode, with a bit of shivering for about a couple of hours, so I'm not sure if this was actual flu or just a bloody awful cold. I was hot and sweaty for the next three days with a nasty headache and feeling of nausea. My wife had 'flu once when we were on holiday. Not a bad case, was still able to talk Spanish to the doctor. Still had no energy, was just about able to sit in the car and groan when I raved about the scenery. When she got back to work she found that one of the kids she taught was dead. Andy Yes very nasty is Flu, as you can read here;-(.. https://www.cdc.gov/features/1918-fl...mic/index.html -- Tony Sayer |
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On 11/02/2019 21:16, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Vir Campestris vir.campestris@ invalid.invalid scribeth thus On 08/02/2019 18:39, Andrew wrote: Exactly one week later I had a similar episode, with a bit of shivering for about a couple of hours, so I'm not sure if this was actual flu or just a bloody awful cold. I was hot and sweaty for the next three days with a nasty headache and feeling of nausea. My wife had 'flu once when we were on holiday. Not a bad case, was still able to talk Spanish to the doctor. Still had no energy, was just about able to sit in the car and groan when I raved about the scenery. When she got back to work she found that one of the kids she taught was dead. Andy Yes very nasty is Flu, as you can read here;-(.. https://www.cdc.gov/features/1918-fl...mic/index.html Its estimated it killed more than double the number of people killed in the first world war. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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In article , John
Rumm scribeth thus On 11/02/2019 21:16, tony sayer wrote: In article , Vir Campestris vir.campestris@ invalid.invalid scribeth thus On 08/02/2019 18:39, Andrew wrote: Exactly one week later I had a similar episode, with a bit of shivering for about a couple of hours, so I'm not sure if this was actual flu or just a bloody awful cold. I was hot and sweaty for the next three days with a nasty headache and feeling of nausea. My wife had 'flu once when we were on holiday. Not a bad case, was still able to talk Spanish to the doctor. Still had no energy, was just about able to sit in the car and groan when I raved about the scenery. When she got back to work she found that one of the kids she taught was dead. Andy Yes very nasty is Flu, as you can read here;-(.. https://www.cdc.gov/features/1918-fl...mic/index.html Its estimated it killed more than double the number of people killed in the first world war. Some have put estimates higher than that, around 50 Million and more, problem is that after so much misery dearth and grief people, not surprisingly, seemed to want to forget this pestilence that was thrown on them. What was the defining factor in the illness was the speed which it attacked young and otherwise fit and healthy people, this was a result of a cytokine storm where the body over reacted to the pathogens attacking it older people did not have that reaction and survived it. It seems the killer was rapid onset Pneumonia, people in effect drowned themselves Fine in the morning, dead the next. Poor sods.. -- Tony Sayer |
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John Rumm writes: On 11/02/2019 21:16, tony sayer wrote: Yes very nasty is Flu, as you can read here;-(.. https://www.cdc.gov/features/1918-fl...mic/index.html Its estimated it killed more than double the number of people killed in the first world war. The most significant thing is that it killed the most healthy in particular. It did this because it was the body's own immune system which killed in that flu, and those with strong immune systems were therefore particularly vulnerable. Ironically, elderly people can be less vulnerable to many flu variants, because their bodies are more likely to have seen sufficiently similar variants and already have immunity to it getting started. There was quite a serious one probbly some 10-20 years ago, but generally anyone over 55 was immune because it was similar to one that did the rounds 55 years earlier. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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