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dave_mc

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Re: The Pox
« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2009, 05:02:37 PM »
you should just adopt northern ireland school holidays. much handier.
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maverickf1jockey

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Re: The Pox
« Reply #16 on: July 17, 2009, 04:49:20 PM »
It's apparently in my town now and a 51 year old woman has died.

I expect I'll be fine though as I usually miss out all these bugs that are going around (plus I just finished up at school so I am unlikely to come into direct contact with the virus (and I know that it is infectious as opposed to contagious but it would have to be a hell of a wind to send it over my way.).).
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Ian Price

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Re: The Pox
« Reply #17 on: July 17, 2009, 10:35:20 PM »
All this panic and media attention makes me wonder how many people die of 'normal' flu. I imagine quite a few, yet there is no mass hysteria about it splashed all over the papers and on tv news channels.
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Plexi Ken

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Re: The Pox
« Reply #18 on: July 17, 2009, 11:06:39 PM »
I have read that 'normal' seasonal flu results in between 1,000 and 6,000 deaths in the UK per year.
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Jonny

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Re: The Pox
« Reply #19 on: July 17, 2009, 11:27:16 PM »
I couldn't imagine dying from normal flu. You sweat off your temperature, sleep lots and take medication. After a good lie in bed and a night sleep I reckon you'd be fine.
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Elliot

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Re: The Pox
« Reply #20 on: July 18, 2009, 10:05:16 AM »
You normally die from flu from things like viral pneumonia - the flu makes you weak, your lungs are damage and a fill up and before you know it the goop in your lungs gets infected and the grim reaper comes for a visit.

I had it seasonal flu earlier this year and had an infected lung - I really did feel like I was going to die - and, apparently, without taking antibiotics to treat the secondary infection in the lungs I could have. 
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