Well? Well? Anything?
Strange
> Strange <li...@ucan.foad.org> writes:
>> > Nile Evil Bastard <nil...@iname.com> wrote:
>> >>What a way to start nineteen-ninety-ten. "I caught a Y2K bug."
>> Hmmm. I musta been involved in bug testing, then. I recently had this
>> flu that is hitting everywhere around Chicago -- you get a high fever
> Guess this bug has been pretty busy. People all over have been getting it.
Ok, gets better.
I'm interviewing, and I get told one of the people I am supposed to talk
to is not in today... his three kids' flu has turned out to be...
scarlet fever.
Like, yes, scarlet fever. What is this, 1900?
Now THAT is a Y2K bug.
-M
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>
>Robert Blake <dr....@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Strange <li...@ucan.foad.org> writes:
>>> > Nile Evil Bastard <nil...@iname.com> wrote:
>>> >>What a way to start nineteen-ninety-ten. "I caught a Y2K bug."
>
>>> Hmmm. I musta been involved in bug testing, then. I recently had this
>>> flu that is hitting everywhere around Chicago -- you get a high fever
>
>> Guess this bug has been pretty busy. People all over have been getting it.
>
>Ok, gets better.
>
>I'm interviewing, and I get told one of the people I am supposed to talk
>to is not in today... his three kids' flu has turned out to be...
>
>scarlet fever.
>
>Like, yes, scarlet fever. What is this, 1900?
>
Bah. Scarlet fever is what you get if you don't treat strep throat. Same
bacterial infection, just systemic instead of centered in the throat. I
had it when I was like three, I'm told.
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Strange
[scarlet fever]
> Bah. Scarlet fever is what you get if you don't treat strep throat. Same
> bacterial infection, just systemic instead of centered in the throat. I
> had it when I was like three, I'm told.
Hunh! I didn't realize it was considered typical. Checking up, you're
quite right, it seems. Either it's so common no one really bothers
calling it anything other than strep much of the time, or strep usually
gets treated so quickly and easily that the scarlet fever rash (from
the strep toxins) doesn't develop, so it's just not really mentioned.
Don't know which; I grew up in a medically-savvy family, and so until I
was about 14, I thought almost everyone ran their kids through a symptom
list at the first cough. I had strep throat a couple of times, and it was
knocked dead too quickly for the scarlet rash to show up.
-M, who didn't get out of going to school much as a result of
symptom-savvy parents