SWine Flu?

Curly · July 21, 2009

I know I've had swine flu because I had 11 of the 12 symptoms (my son had all 12) and I have had the flu jab for the past 12 years and no flu. Prior to that I would get flu every year. It's like labour and chicken pox, you'll know if you have really got it.

It's very odd though that my husband and aged parents didn't get it even though we coughed and spluttered all over them. Immune systems are very strange things.

jim_the_chin · July 21, 2009

curly - what symptom were you missing?

i had everything but the fever so the GP said it was technically not swine flu. but it clearly is given all the other symptoms, it's unlike anything i've ever had, and my son and full package a week before I got it.

Moos · July 22, 2009

Has anyone seen the Thunderer's shock headline today? Swine Flu Girl...died of double infection

Apparently, the reportedly healthy little girl that died recently of swine flu was found post-mortem to have had a number of other complications - the conclusion being that apparently we aren't all going to die this week from advanced plague.

A gross breach of journalistic standards - surely they understand that the role of the press is to hype up this situation into a panicky crisis until we all form armed mobs breaking into hospitals to self-inject Tamiflu?

???? · July 22, 2009

They are all turning into comics Moos

Curly · July 28, 2009

I missed the diahorrea thankfully. You do need to have the fever to be diagnosed as swine flu although it doesn't mean you haven't got it/had it. A few people I know who have been in contact with those with swine flu have just had sore throats - maybe those are the mild ones. Lets hope so.