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Flu Season is kicking my ass.
Yeah, this is pretty bad. Apparently, the flu season is affecting pretty much all of the United States and is already responsible for the deaths of some people. I'm hurting over here, I've never been this sick for this long...
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I feel your pain Shew. I just got over the flu and now have Bronchitis. Winter Sucks
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shutupshutupshutup YOUR GOING TO INFECT ME!
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Flu death rates for 18-24 year olds (which I'm gessing you fall into) is about .5 per 100,000. You're still 30 times more likely to be murdered. "The Flu" is yet another in a long line of useless news reports to keep us tuned in at 11pm - in time to see what they found in a kitchen of a resturant YOU MIGHT EAT AT! Worthless talking heads... |
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I was thinkin' about this, and a big question hit me.
How does one die from the flu? Does it run your temperature up to lethal levels and cause a nervous system shut-down? Fill lungs with fluid and drown you? Cause unstoppable rectal bleeding? (I figure the last one is unlikely - even with my smidgen of medical knowledge.) Maybe there's a doctor in the house with good knowledge of these kinda things (*cough*Nydia*cough*) that can give the technical details of how one ceases to be, from the flu. It would be interesting to know. |
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Faust, it's the same reasons people die of the heatwave in France.
They are ill-prepared, wait 'till the last minute to do anything about it, and well basically just all around pussys. |
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I think people with AIDS and other immune system lowering viruses are more prone to dying from things like the flu and cold. I could be wrong. If your body's immune system is already suffering, it is very difficult to fight back against things like the common cold and such.
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The CDC keeps seperate stats for people who die of HIV-related illnesses (pneumonia, etc), and those aren't part of the .5 / 100,000.
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You die because your body temp goes too high mostly and you fall into coma. Is what happened to the only person I know that died from flu because generally its not the flu alone that kill you its the flu that finish you so to speak
 . Its very rare tho. Mostly old people because they don't like doctors and bodies are weakers. |
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