lol darkside

tell us something we don't know

....i recently was confirmed as having "swine" flu....i was off work for about 9 days, it started off like a flu but after three days my throat felt like it was "closing" up (this panicked me as used to suffer badly from asthma), i had earache, continual feeling off nausea, mixed stools (not in an furniture kind of way though) and i felt that all my the muscles in my body were aching at the same time....i was prescribed tamiflu and took it as prescribed, some of the symptoms eased (throat, earaches, stools) but the achiness of my muscles took another few days of ibuprofen and weed to calm down....everytime a cure comes out there are people who start panicking about the "unknown", i bet they did after penicillen was invented, someone shouting out "it's mould you know!"....it is the same with everything unknown, we feel insecure and panic

....no pandemic yet but at the moment the concern is mutation with another flu virus (such as bird flu, regular influenza, etc) and those at risk are mainly the elderly, infirm, those with underlying illness (such as weak heart, lungs, etc) and the very young.
To the rest of us it is like a very bad cold/flu and after a few days it subsides and you can get on with looking for other illnesses to fret about.
Reported cases in the UK are down by 1/3 from about 1,000 to about 300 (according to figures released by the NHS) and we are already in the "dreaded" flu season and still no apocolypse