Husband of a co-worker is in the middle of the same. How likely is it that you'd get strep and flu concurrently?

I missed work yesterday flat on my back with aches sinus/chest congestion and sore throat. I gotta get to bed.

How do you know you have/had strep and flu concurrently?
If a little birdie told you, it could be H5N1. :mg:

Fever (102+), massive aches --like I got hit by a bus, extreme exhaustion = influenza + throat so sore/swollen I literally couldn't swallow for 2 days, with positive strep test at Dr. office = flu and strep. :thepain3:

I ate a total of 3 bowls of oatmeal and maybe 4 glasses of tea in 4 days b/c I couldn't swallow and was to tired to fix anything but hot water. No, hubby didn't help because he literally stayed 10 feet away from me the whole time. With a can of Lysol lest I breathe in his direction. :rolleyes:

There's a guy at my office that's out with the mumps. I didn't know you could still get that!

Today, I learned that there are many, many parasites one can host if one goes to Africa. Like, the hookworm! Or, the guinea worm! I also learned that one half of the earth's population is infected with some sort of parasite or other.

If I had to choose, I'd like the parasite that lets me eat HUGE quantities of pasta salad and not gain weight, please. I would be good to this parasite and feed it filet mignon as often as possible. However, if I DID indeed have this parasite I'd have to be on ativan and xanax and buspar as well.

so, take heart, labrat! I know you feel like death, but, honey, at least you don't have a nasty old worm inside you! :neutral:

That we know of.

Maybe, but the 16 yo girls are into "Classic Metal". Ozzfest meets Bebe.

Oh yay. Finally some younger groupies!

j/k

/not really

I learned that those novelty glow-in-the-dark coackroaches from toy stores will begin to melt plastic objects that you leave them on over time. Apparently the beta particles from Radium decay are sufficient to breakdown the atomic structure of plastics.

It may not be the beta particles. Some types of plastic, especially the rubbery kind, will melt other harder plastics. The "rubber" (plastic) worms they sell for fishing have to be kept in a "worm proof" plastic tackle box.

Those "rubber" worms will melt the clear polyurethane finish on furniture, too. :mg:

And don't use Vaseline for lubrication when using a condom. Same reason, with bigger potential consequences.

No, glow-in-the-dark products do not contain radioactive materials.

phosphorescence, in which the energy from absorbed photons undergoes intersystem crossing into a state of higher spin multiplicity (see term symbol), usually a triplet state. Once the energy is trapped in the triplet state, transition back to the lower singlet energy states is quantum mechanically forbidden, meaning that it happens much more slowly than other transitions. The result is a slow process of radiative transition back to the singlet state, sometimes lasting minutes or hours. This is the basis for "glow in the dark" substances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoluminescence

Only photons are radiated in these products.

As for the meltdown, some plastics can be dissolvers of other plastics.

OK, thanks guys... I won't have to worry about radiation from my roaches any more!

Some do, but should be clearly labeled. I'm sure these roaches do not.:headshake

Today I learned a lot about glowing roaches. :lol2: