Reply #136: What will Bird Flu be like? [View All]

[Dogmudgeon]

Most of us have a healthy fear for what a pandemic could do, but I get the sense that nobody here has had a severe bout with influenza. Well, I have. I posted it in the Public Health forum about a severe case of the flu I had in 1990.

I posted a shorter version several months ago in reply to a post by Pandemic_1918. Mine was the last post in the thread. Irony note: My grandmother had the flu in 1918, when she was about five years old. It was so bad that she remembered it quite well.

Believe me, you do not want to get an exotic new Influenza A variant. My own experience, as bad as it was, was probably a step less severe than a full-on newly-recombined-genome flu would be.

Anyway, if you like scary stories, click through to it. And by all means, don't think I'm idly trying to scare you. I'm seriously trying to scare you. The government and our sainted Health Care cartels seem to care not one whit about this problem, but a pandemic will strike rich and poor alike.

Stay healthy, everyone.

--p!