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I was pretty much NEVER sick as a kid, perfect attendance through grade school and also high school. College, well, I had a lot of sick days but that generally wasn't due to germs. I certainly wasn't isolated though as a kid. Lucky I guess or maybe my immune system beat the colds before they developed.
And now, at 27, I seem to catch a cold even with just the briefest exposure to someone who is sick. Pretty much I would support the study Raven mentioned.
Bird flu scares the hell out of me by the way. We're due for a pandemic, it's more a matter of when rather then if. Anyone in medicine will tell you that. What really scares me is that it doesn't seem to care who it kills like a normal flu. At 27, I'm active and healthy, but bird flu could kill me just as it would someone older or less healthy.
Ever thought about what happens if bird flu hits? I'm not talking about people dying from it. Think about New Orleans and how quickly society fell apart. I bet people aren't going to be real friendly towards sneezing in public if bird flu comes around. I can see things getting violent...
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