We've got Swine Flu

I think i'm getting something rubbish. Was sick last night and my stomach is going crazy. I also seem to be getting some mild flu like symptoms. SPose it's inevitable working in a school with 2000 kids.

[timwilky]

We have had a mail from the boss, two have been sent home by the site medical centre after showing flu like symptoms. We are therefore not allowed into work if you have :-


fever, with a temperature > 38°C
Cough
Sore Throat
Aching Limbs
Runny Nose
Shortness of Breath
Diarrhoea and Vomiting (Less common but have been reported)

We are a 45,000+ international company with many people travelling between sites & counties daily, there is therefore a great concern that one person could potentially mass infect the company. However, as two of my family work in the local hospital and I rarely go to any company offices, i think my risk of catching it is going to be a lot closer to home.

At the present time, the symptoms of swine 'flu are far more mild than those of "normal" 'flu.

Normal 'flu kills 1000s in this country each year (but no fuss is made in the media) whereas swine 'flu has been associated with just a few deaths in this country but these have been in people with far more serious existing conditions and who may well have died of these anyway.

Having had normal 'flu in the past i know which I'd prefer to have

The media are interested because it has a good name - even though there's no actual link to pigs

It's the colleague with pnumonia that bothers me far more (and the possibility of getting both together)

Several people at work have had it.

I'm buying studded leather and a muscle car in anticipation of having to raid the devastated ruins of Britain for supplies while fighting off hordes of swine flu zombies.

Originally Posted by metalangel

I'm buying studded leather and a muscle car in anticipation of having to raid the devastated ruins of Britain for supplies while fighting off hordes of swine flu zombies.

Sounds like a trip in to London most days.

"You're the first uninfected person we've seen in six days."

[Paul the 6th]

I'm gonna watch 28 days later tonight me thinks.. then I can really get in the mood for swine flu

my nephew has been swabbed for it they could've picked it up on a school activity holiday in wales but they are not sure

hope you manage to avoid it Messie

[embee]

The government statistics for cases have been total rubbish for weeks/months, meaningless in fact.

In the Midlands, where there has been a concentration of infections, people were going to the doc with symptoms, but unless there was a known connection with a confirmed case they weren't tested for swine flu. Clearly many of these were very probably swine flu, so numbers were grossly under-reported and the spread was untracked.

Head in the sand stuff. Someone needs a good slapping.

Good job it isn't serious.