Okay, here's my flu shot ish. AFAIK the flu shot only innoculates you against one or two strains, and since we don't have a vaccine for the scary bird flu, that won't be one of them.
I think the issue with flu shots and the bird flu is that the more people who are resistant to the regular flu, when the bird flu strain hits this way, there will be fewer people who have the ability to be infect by both the regular (and more contagious) flu and the bird flu at the same time, allowing them to combine and be the next evil deadly flu.
So I guess really, we should sending our flu vaccines to Vietnam and Thailand, so they don't mix the flus.
I like it at around 1:47 a.m., by the light of the fridge, with a furtive spoon.
Plei and I could not live happily together, no matter how good I wrangle babies. Unless there were enough relish for us both.
Hey, what language is "bis" meaning (I think) between or to ( like one to seven)? I was babbling at the cat and it popped out and now I can't think of the direct translation (though I know I used it correctly!) It's got to be german, french or spanish. Maybe czech, but I doubt it.
I have good topic related news! I think I have a touch of the flu!
This is good you see, because this morning under the wave of nausea and the slightly fevery feeling this morning I was trying to figure out how to fix our credit, save some money, buy a house and move to the suburbs within the next 9 months.
After a trip to the drugstore it would seem that none of that is necessary, and I can still drink and smoke...well, I can once I'm over Yay!Flu.
Yay Daisy?
I hate when my brain momentarily accesses my foreign language braincell. It's pretty weak, but it pops up at random. I said dekuji to someone the other day. They were confused.
Yes. I have the Yay!Flu. If you saw the state of my finances and knew my true level of responsibility you would call it the Yay!Flu too. As would any hypothetical sprog.
I am pretty sure what killed Jim Henson was bacterial pneumonia, so, in disease terms, kind of a "piano dropped on your head" kind of illness. In the sense that it is unlikely to happen, but when it does, hello to the dirt nap.
Most flu-related deaths are from secondary bacterial pneumonia. It's dangerously easy to catch when your immune system has been compromised. (And in this modern era of antibiotics, completely treatable if you catch it early. Which Jim Henson did not.)
So, flu shot --> no flu --> no weakened immune system for bacterial pneumonia to infect --> no death.
When I got pneumonia last year, it was an aftereffect of the flu.
Hey, that was two Springs ago! Yea!
Didn't he die of strep(ish)? Does strep often follow the flu? Or is it more lethal when it does, you're saying?
Or is it more lethal when it does, you're saying?
This. Influenza is rarely lethal by itself -- it almost always kills by weakening your immune system and leaving you vulnerable to bacteria you would normally fight off.
(The 1918 strain also killed by provoking such a violent immune response that patients' white cells essentially devoured their own lungs, but that was special circumstances.)
