For all of you in DC on 9/24, who went home with a cold afterwards?

[LynneSin]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/10/18/tularemia/index.html

I know, it's highly unlikely any of us came down with tularemia but I find it interesting that so many of us who were in DC came down with something soon after they returned home. I know mine couldn't have been tulermia because I was sick on Saturday and there is a few days incubation period. But I was also on antibiotic so if there was any of those tularemia buggers in me the antibiotic would have killed it.

So just out of curiousity - did anyone else end up getting sick right after they were at the protest in DC on 9/24?

[In_The_Wind]

1. LynneSin

I called the CDC - Tularemia hits the same day you are exposed.

[LynneSin]

2. According to that article at Salon there's a few days incubation

Or it just could affect everyone differently.

I still don't think I had tulermia but that article kinda frightens me that there is a possibility that I could have had it. But why would terrorists attack the people who are trying to stop the war against them?

Or.......nah, that's just to :tinfoilhat: to even go down that path

[In_The_Wind]

3. The article is wrong.

I still have the doctor's name around here somewhere. He asserted that - anyone exposed to 'rabbit flu' would come down with the symptoms almost immediately and would become progressively worse until treated.

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4098670&mesg_id=4098750

[wildhorses]

4. I went home with no problems..of course

I am exposed on a daily basis in my job so I have probably built up immunities that others don't have in their systems.

[In_The_Wind]

5. lucky you

:thumbsup:

[KG]

6. i came down with something the next w/e. but i chalk that up to being

in being exposed to a massive amount of threats - a large crowd, using port-a-potties, staying in hotel rooms - could've picked it up anywhere...

[bicentennial_baby]

9. thank you for having common sense!

it's called being in a major city with hundreds of thousands of other people, people!! there were both the protests AND the nat'l book festival that weekend. not to mention a good deal of alcohol consumption, which doesn't help your immune system one bit! oh yeah, and nasty weather too.

same thing happened to me after being in Paris for a while....i swear, some peeps have those :tinfoilhat: on a bit too tight...

[tokenlib]

7. Just seasonal sinus trouble--but I wondered...

There must have been some kind of cold bugs or something else though...considering all the people who reported diverse ailments.

Maybe it was mass allergic reactions to the Bush regime...

[Allenberg]

8. I had a 24 hour bug

but nothing major....I hope. :tinfoilhat:

[kitkatrose]

10. Well, I was there, and I live in DC.

I figured it was just sinuses, normal for me, but everybody else getting sick makes me wonder.

[ragin_acadian]

11. i was sick with a cold for about a week and a half,

and Katinmn (i think that's her DU name) said she was treated for Tularemia exposure.

[NMMNG]

12. I came down with a cold starting on 09/28

And I've been sick ever since :cry:. It seemed to be letting up a little and then it got worse again last week, settling deep in my chest and making me quite miserable. Of course the fact that I was in Provincetown and it was chilly and rainy the entire time didn't help I'm sure.