Reply to: Have you got H1N1?

[Pogle]

Well I've had flu and so has Pogle jr - i had to take a week (yes a whole week!) off work. Mr P has had something with a high temperature, but it was not as debilitating as the thing we had. Mr P is a smoker, but I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it.

Don't know if it was piggy flu, but its 3 weeks after I got the first symptions and I'm only now feeling like me old self again
Pogle Jr slept for 48 hrs when she had it.

I do suspect it was piggy flu, probably picked up from the hot, sweaty, damp london underground - ugh

[RichardCranium]

I'm surprised no scaremongering anti-smoking nazi has yet seized the opportunity to claim that smokers are five times as likely to drop dead of swine flu or something.

If so, they'd be torn to pieces.

Smokers very rarely get colds or 'flu. The smoke kills off most everything.

On the very rare occasion (once in a few years) a smoker does get a cold or 'flu, it will be VERY bad and go on for weeks.


There's a reason public schools used to make school boys smoke cigars: it keeps the throat and lung infections down.

First hand experience of a 30 a day man for 24 years. I've had the sniffles on and off ever since I stopped.

[SuperZ]

I`ve had somethinig, not sure if swine flu but probably not. Had a pain in stomach Thur fri last week, ichy eyes and bunged up nose last sat, runny nose(but not too snotty) from Sunday to today and a cough that came on yesterday.
Nothing a nice bottle of wine won`t put right - glug glug

[VectraMan]

I hope the cold and sore throat I've suddenly picked up since yesterday is swine flu, as so far it feels like nothing more than a cold and sore throat.

[OwlHoot]

I'm surprised no scaremongering anti-smoking nazi has yet seized the opportunity to claim that smokers are five times as likely to drop dead of swine flu or something.

[OwlHoot]

.. This epidemic does appear to be disproportionately affecting minorities. Poorer underlying health maybe.

Less inherited resistance to diseases of temperate climates, in the same way ex-tropical people tend to fare slightly better on average with things like malaria?

[Bunk]

I might have already had it a couple of months ago.

The leaflet I got in the mail made it sound really severe and nasty so I thought my flu was too mild to be swine. Now everyone says the symptoms are pretty mild so it may well have been an early case.

[OrangeHopper]

The OrangeHopper family is working on the basis it has it. Had it for a week and everyone is now on the mend. We had a variety of symptoms and were all affected to a different degree but nobody suffered badly and were not laid low as some bouts of flu have done in the past.

There weren't too many takers when we put out the "Swine Flu Party" sign.

We probably got it because we are low class wooftahs who live in the slums of Bogs Hole.

[Menelaus]

WHS

[xoggoth]

Don't know about the hygiene theory, it's not my experience, but from circumstantial evidence of details of the fatalities affected and of where there are most cases CB, seems to be right on one thing. This epidemic does appear to be disproportionately affecting minorities. Poorer underlying health maybe.

[BrilloPad]

I'll give you five pounds if you will do tongues with Cyberman

[HairyArsedBloke]

Pah. Only raging wooftahs get flu.

[zamzummim]

There has been on case confirmed at the office I work at !

[xoggoth]

Pah. Only raging wooftahs get flu.

[HairyArsedBloke]

linky: BBC

AREAS WITH HIGHEST WEEKLY DEMAND FOR GPS

• Tower Hamlets - 759 flu consultations per 100,000
• City and Hackney - 392
• Islington - 306
• Newham - 293
• Luton - 272

Epidemic levels are classed as 200

THE AT RISK GROUPS

• People with lung disease
• People with heart disease
• People with kidney disease
• People with diabetes
• Those with immunosuppression problems either because of treatment or disease
• Patients who have had drug treatment for asthma
• Pregnant women

Children under five

HAB is dooooooooooommmmmmed