I got the Fringe Flu, an affliction that comes with the damp and cold that has just finally yielded to sunshine.
Indeed, one could imagine people with worse afflictions than flu simply putting up with the pain, continuing to write all those stupid emails until they are rendered totally incapacitated.
The name of Spanish Flu came from the early affliction and large mortalities in Spain (BMJ,10/19/1918) where it allegedly killed 8 million in May (BMJ, 7/13/1918).
After two hours, bacterial contamination of meats and cheeses is possible, Ms. Mullin said, and consumption of a tainted slice could result in intestinal illnesses, stomach flu and diarrhea, though these afflictions would probably last no more than 24 hours.
For example, one speaker said It is estimated that 40 million Americans alive today have had histoplasmosis, a fungus dis ease that can mimic such com mon afflictions as the common cold or flu.
It can be debated that in a country of 1.1 billion people, the total number of diagnosed Swine Flu cases were statistically inconsequential, but considering this is an affliction of the voluble urban population, this got set in the minds of the television news executives as the news that would get garner the highest TRP.
His letters are filled with news of bodily affliction: a sore throat, a broken ankle, a bee sting on his knee, flu, hay fever, insomnia, an unspecified urethra condition, a left forefinger cut while opening a can of cat food, diverticulitis, aches, coughing, hemorrhoids, shingles, stress, depression, more hemorrhoids.
Flu, for young adults in good health, enjoyed a reputation as a nasty but mercifully short, and usually not serious, affliction.
AFFLICTION Schizophrenia.
