Swine Flu Fear

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The swine flu is a viral event very similar to the 1918 Spanish flu and the 1969 Hong Kong flu. It causes the immune system of very healthy people to go haywire. The lymph glands swell and the lungs fill with fluid and this is what makes this flu so deadly. I was one of the earliest victims of the Hong Kong flu and because I was an athlete and very healthy, it nearly killed me.

Even so, these diseases do not hit everyone. No one in my family got it, for example. And also, the disease tends to become progressively less dangerous over the course of a rather short time frame, less than a year. But right now, it is quite dangerous to people between 16-30 years of age. Washing hands and carrying tissues is most important. i got the Hong Kong flu because of my work as a medic and this meant, before we knew of the disease, I didn't take precautions that all medics take today. For good reason.

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[ardvan]

a sidenote: your lovely picture with the unicorn and the fence is almost identical and very prominently visible in the new harry potter trailer/movie.