Posted by Dinah on April 28, 2009, at 21:00:46
In reply to Re: Update Seriously » Phillipa, posted by obsidian on April 28, 2009, at 20:51:21
They are saying that the cases in the US are recovering more quickly than they had expected, based on what happened elsewhere. Some have been hospitalized, but most released. Maybe the flu shot is at least working well enough to give the body a head start in producing antibodies?
Flu does spread pretty rapidly. It's astonishing really how it used to move around the world even in the days before jumbo jets and easy travel. But even so, almost everything runs quickly through a school. They're always sending notices home with my son. A few a year, at least. And my mother caught ever single virus that came near her school. Yet oddly, we didn't catch nearly as many as she did, even though we shared a house with her. Schools must be special breeding grounds for viruses. Lots of people spreading them, lots of sneezed on surfaces.
Does it ever occur to anyone but me that it is insane to have magazines in doctor's offices? I thought about it a few years ago, and have been bringing my own reading material since.
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