If you think that our bodies protect us against most bugs that are doing the rounds otherwise we would be continually ill. So most people in the 1st World have a good immune system. Why does a human 'catch' anything? If the bug could be irradicated as polio/smallpox has been in the UK then there might be a firm reason to give an apparently healthy populas innoculations .............
I do remember well how ill I felt when I had the 'flu - 2 years running in March of those years, early 1980s. I was too ill even to contemplate ringing the GP
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- I told DH that "I'm not hot or anything" but the flannel with which he was sponging me down was steaming
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then he carried me to the bathroom which faces East and oh so bright
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.............. Went to bed both times feeling fine, no warning; woke with aches, painful backs of eyes, not wanting to move .......... took about 3 days each time before I dared to lift head from pillow
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