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Offline stanmapstone

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Re: Flu epidemic 1918/19
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 08 April 18 17:26 BST (UK) »
That is one theory, there are others, such the origin was in the USA https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1479-5876-2-3
Also this article http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lvf/
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Re: Flu epidemic 1918/19
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 08 April 18 19:20 BST (UK) »
Sorry, Wrong thread.
Dim ateb yn well nag ateb anghywir. Nid oes dim yn ddall fel rhai nad ydynt yn dymuno gweld

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Re: Flu epidemic 1918/19
« Reply #11 on: Monday 09 April 18 17:47 BST (UK) »
Yes Kiltpin I know what you mean about people who say the've had the flu or have the flu when they are clearly still going out. I had the Australian flu in January and I liked this way of telling  if people really have the flu.
Put a £20 note on the floor just out of reach of the patient. Tell them they can have it if they pick it up. Those with a cold will get it, those with flu will just leave it lying there!

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Re: Flu epidemic 1918/19
« Reply #12 on: Monday 09 April 18 18:35 BST (UK) »
Yes, a similar "flu test" is the same thing but with a winning lottery ticket!
I recall a friend who was at home with flu and brochitis, very poorly. At the same time men were building a paved patio outside the windows of the room where she was lying ill. She could see that they were doing the job wrongly, wrong pavings, wrong pattern, sizes -  everthing. But she was too ill to get up and tell them, too ill to ring her husband to get him to sort the problem out.
Real flu.