Anyone Have the Flu?

[NeoDuskmon]

I had the flu a few weeks go but I survive and now I'm feeling better

[31337D00D]

Im starting to get symtoms, so i might have it in the next couple days

[Del_Boy]

The Common Cold (not the Flu) could be modified to destroy cancer cells?

Interesting article linked to from that page. Seems like their is some sound Science as to why this would happen (the cold trying to inject it's DNA into the already damaged cells - it failing, and the body or the cold ordering the cell to self destruct).

This idea is apparently nothing new however, but I just read about it today Thought it was interesting.

[Del_Boy]

Was reading howstuffworks last night too about how Viruses work (already knew it pretty well). Nasty buggers, get into your body, look for healthy cells then they inject your cells with their own damaged DNA! Bastards, lol Eventually they cause that cell to burst due to the amount of crap it ends up containing.

[Ryu]

Yup sorta reminds me of USA.
Hmmmmm id say just kidding but the more i think of it the more it makes sence

[Mistral]

I know neighboring school districts were shut down when over half of the student population came down with the flu, but ours hasn't been seriously affected. Of course, even if it had been, I doubt our superintendent would shut down the schools for anything short of nuclear war...and then it's kind of iffy.

And, Del_Boy, not quite accurate. A virus typically works by injecting its DNA into the targeted cell, yes, but said DNA is far from damaged; it works to produce more viruses. More virulent diseases reproduce the way you said, though - the viral DNA takes over the cell, uses it to produce more viruses, then bursts, releasing those viruses to repeat the process. Other ones merely sit dormant in the cell's DNA until they're triggered by something in the environment, at which point every cell born from the original cell in range of the trigger go through the process mentioned above.

[NaturalMystic]

lol people in my school do...but i dont...i am sick tho..with something else i forgot what all i know is i missed 2 days of school!!!! and i got somekind of medication

[Drageuth]

I'm a disturbingly healthy child.

[Ace]

Had the flu a few days ago, starting to go away now.

[Ryu]

Omg Del_Boy is wrong??????????????

Oh wait maybe he has the Flu

[Del_Boy]

LOL, it happens (often).

But... in this case I just stated it wrongly. The cold virus DNA is damaged only in the way that it is malicious (and in comparison to the correct DNA of your cells), and not incomplete which is what my original posting may have suggested

Excellent clarification though, and really well explained.

[artist088]

i just got sick 2day. i woke up w/ a sore throat and a headache. my temperature is .2 below an actual fever.

[youthquake]

i had an odd sickness that made me sick for about a week. first the doctors thought it was serious strep throat, then they thought it was mono. they never figured out what it was.

but man was i sick. i had a big lymph node on my neck and blister things on my tonsils.