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Topic started on 12-11-2009 @ 10:28 PM by 2manyquestions
Common Cold may hold of Swine Flu


A VIRUS that causes the common cold may be saving people from swine flu. If this intriguing idea turns out to be true, it would explain why swine flu's autumn wave has been slow to take off in some countries and point to new ways to fight flu. "It is really surprising that there has not been more pandemic flu activity in many European countries," says Arnold Monto, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.


I guess the day has come when, in the end, I might be thankful for contracting a cold.


reply posted on 12-11-2009 @ 10:44 PM by 2manyquestions
reply to post by loner007




I guess you don't! Sounds pretty horrible. I get very annoyed by the flu and cold. Usually I'm not sick enough to stay home from work, but I'm sick enough to feel incredibly uncomfortable for a couple of weeks. The runny or stuffed nose, scratchy throat, losing my voice, occasional fever,... it's pure hell. I've been stuffing myself with all sorts of fruit as much as possible. Hopefully it helps.


reply posted on 12-11-2009 @ 11:06 PM by 2manyquestions
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Some people seem to feel it more than others. I'm sure there are many variables. Good that you came out of it so quickly!


reply posted on 13-11-2009 @ 05:12 AM by mysticalzoe
reply to post by Essan



We don't get the flu every year in my house. I got the stomach bug last November, but no flu at all. Several of my old employees got a nasty flu where they couldn't walk at all. I always get a cold though, but it lasts a day or two for me, a week for my kids, and my husband a day. The last time we all got the flu was in 2005 and it did last a month. I got conjunctivitis, and larygitis, no flu, my husband got the flu and bronchitis, my three kids all ha the flu. We were all miserable, but we came out of it. I think we'll be okay, none of us has ever gotten the flu shot.

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