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'Stomach Flu' Rips Through the Nation
USA Today via AOL ^ | 01/09/07 | By Anita Manning

Posted on 01/09/2007 12:21:17 PM PST by Bella_Bru

You have to go to the link...Gannett and all.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.aol.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: illegalaliens; montezumasrevenge; norovirus; usemorebleach; virus; washyourhands
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To: Bella_Bru

My whole family has gone through this norovirus in the last few weeks (four of the five of us in the last five days). I spent last night bouncing between two sick kids (ages 8 and 4)--I was sick last Thursday and am still recovering; our 2 y.o. had it over the weekend and is still recovering. I am a walking zombie, but I digress.

I scrubbed down both bathrooms with bleach water, washed all infected sheets and clothes, and about everything else I can think of just today. I am normally a clean freak (just ask anyone who knows me), so we probably contracted it outside the home. My husband was the first one to get it before Christmas, so he probably incubated it and passed it along, or the rest of us picked it up elsewhere.

It's a nasty virus, but not all of us who are getting live like pigs (maybe the people who started spreading it, but not the infected).

Man, am I tired and cranky, lol.


41 posted on 01/09/2007 12:35:03 PM PST by Hoosier Catholic Momma ('But why is the rum gone?' Captain Jack Sparrow)
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To: netmilsmom

I use my foot, too, and I'm a guy!.........


42 posted on 01/09/2007 12:35:25 PM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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To: Bella_Bru

It ripped through my daughter last week. She works at the hospital. It hit her hard. We're waiting for the first sign to hit us. I hope we escape it's clutches. Keeping Phenergan on hand just in case. It was the only thing that stopped my daughter's symptoms.


43 posted on 01/09/2007 12:35:57 PM PST by OB1kNOb (The American military does not lose wars. The American politician, however, does.)
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To: greyfoxx39

They should make it code to make restroom doors swing both ways..........


44 posted on 01/09/2007 12:36:15 PM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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To: Bella_Bru
A nationwide BARF ALERT?


...this could have something to do with Ted Kennedy's bloviating.
45 posted on 01/09/2007 12:37:14 PM PST by Redcloak ("Shooting makes me feel better!" -Aeryn Sun)
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To: Howlin

My husband and I were visitng our son,daughter-in-law and grandaughter ,in San Clemente, right before Christmas. I woke during the night feeling really awful and within the hour everyone in the house ,except my husband, was horribly sick. The 4 of us had eaten asparagus, hubby despises it. We figured that was the culprit. A neighbor who works at a lab had the leftover asparagus tested. It was fine. Next, all the neighbors were sick. Hubby got sick 3 weeks later.


46 posted on 01/09/2007 12:37:18 PM PST by surrey
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To: Hoosier Catholic Momma
Well....if you were standing there with your kids while they puked...norovirus particles can be present in those tiny little water droplet thingies in the air. Then they land on the toothbrushes...and other things. Yum.

But most people do spread this from not washing their hands.

47 posted on 01/09/2007 12:37:54 PM PST by Bella_Bru (http://folding.stanford.edu/ - - - -Folding@home. Free Republic team 36120)
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To: Revolting cat!

Get the paper towel ready, then wash your hands, leave the water running, dry your hands, then use the paper towel to shut off the water.


48 posted on 01/09/2007 12:38:15 PM PST by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) "If God is not, everything is permitted." Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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To: everyone

Wait a minute. . .if we are all doing the upper part of the door push thing. . .then I should start using the door knob again. . .


49 posted on 01/09/2007 12:38:15 PM PST by Marie2 (I used to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused.)
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To: OB1kNOb

You use Phenegran too? In a pinch 2 drammamine work ok-ish.


50 posted on 01/09/2007 12:38:41 PM PST by Bella_Bru (http://folding.stanford.edu/ - - - -Folding@home. Free Republic team 36120)
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To: OldBlondBabe

It was a really weird flu, IMO.

I kept thinking to myself, "Come on and let's get this over with," but it just lingered.

And my stomach hasn't HURT like that in years!


51 posted on 01/09/2007 12:40:42 PM PST by Howlin (Don't blame me, I voted Republican!)
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To: Rakkasan1

Please post the source and cost of these. Thank you.


52 posted on 01/09/2007 12:40:51 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (Bill Clinton soiled his legacy, in retaliation the DBM is soiling President Bush's legacy.)
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To: Howlin

Did it hit with little to no warning? One of my friends had it and she said she felt fine all day. Then she felt a little nauseated and within an hour she was hurling.


53 posted on 01/09/2007 12:42:21 PM PST by Bella_Bru (http://folding.stanford.edu/ - - - -Folding@home. Free Republic team 36120)
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To: Red Badger

LOL, am I reading a little sarcasm here? Or a little double entendre?


54 posted on 01/09/2007 12:42:31 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (Bill Clinton soiled his legacy, in retaliation the DBM is soiling President Bush's legacy.)
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To: BureaucratusMaximus

Yes, I got it last spring from a 1 1/2 yr. old granddaughter. Never so sick, horribly ill for a week. Went through the whole family, relatives and friends.


55 posted on 01/09/2007 12:43:12 PM PST by varina davis
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To: Bella_Bru

BUSH IS AT IT AGAIN!!


56 posted on 01/09/2007 12:44:00 PM PST by KenmcG414
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To: Howlin

Had this one Christmas about five or six years ago.

Got up, watched the kids open presents, spent the rest of the day curled up in a ball next to the john.

Was fine in about 36 hours.

I am not a germophobe, but I am now very cautious about washing my hands and touching my face.


57 posted on 01/09/2007 12:44:25 PM PST by NY.SS-Bar9 (DR #1692)
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To: Red Badger
I don't touch door handles in public places and I use a paper towel after washing to open the door to the restroom to exit. I wait for someone to come out or in the store front if the don't have automatic doors, and hold the door by the frame up high if necessary,........

You don't know how eerie it was to read this. I'm sure you know why. ;-)

58 posted on 01/09/2007 12:44:28 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: linda_22003; Horatio Gates

I eat dirt and pick my nose a lot. It builds up antibodies for lots of stuff that way. Never get sick, ever.

I recommend it to everyone.


59 posted on 01/09/2007 12:45:07 PM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Life is tough. It's even tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: greyfoxx39

A little bit of both. But it is awkward to have to grab a door handle in a public restroom to exit after you just washed your hands........


60 posted on 01/09/2007 12:48:59 PM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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