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Flu Fever

AliveInHim Wrote: Sep 03, 2009 10:57 PM
I wish they would quit calling this the swine flu, because it did not come from swine, pigs, hogs- whatever you want to call them. No flu has ever passed from swine to humans and vice versa. Not to say there couldn't be a first, but in this case, it is not so.

LOL didn't you see the TH editorial cartoon earlier today that showed pigs in a barn conspiring to make us all sick as revenge for bacon? :D

Seriously though-it IS just the flu. I may have had it last Spring when I took ill with fever and other flu symptoms-especially weakness- though I didn't have tummy problems (I can't even recall the last time I had stomach flu). Never did go to doc as it was manageable even though I was down for a week and a half before I...

Since the emergence of the H1N1 flu in April of this year, and its classification in June by the World Health Organization as a global pandemic, I have been dreading the fall.

As the mother of two elementary school children, fall is not only the back-to-school season, but also the virus-spreading season. The first year our oldest child was in childcare, she rarely became ill, but my husband was sick for about nine months. It seemed that, as soon as he became well, he would catch something else. The good news is that he acquired immunities to the various...

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