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Kareng @kareng (80243) • United States 6 Feb 25

I've had one set of my grandkids sick last week for at least 7 days and missing school with the flu. Monday they went back to school. Tuesday my grandson woke up feeling horrible and my daughter felt his head and found him...

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Well, they are all sick

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169448) • United States 5 Feb 25

Half the staff for our room is sick. Most of the other people who are qualified to fill in for them are sick, but that is okay, two of our kids are sick. I took pity and am riding the bus. It is February, which used to always...

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The 14 spinach begins the diwali festival in India.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 11 Nov 23

On chaturdashi, the 14th day of the month, Hindus eat 14 spinach. There are different spinach like methi, palak, pui, kolmi, lal, helecha to name a few. All of them are mixed and cooked. After the rains viruses become active. The...

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Bizarre weather and Viruses

Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 19 Apr 23

So where I live the temperature keeps going up and down. One day it's 30 degrees and the next it's tee short and shorts weather. The day after that another ice age begins and ends by noon. Welcome to the wild and wooly midwest....

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Toilet Aerosol

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222314) • United States 23 Dec 22

You are probably aware and scientists have been aware for about 60 years that when you flush a toilet microscopic droplets are shot out of an uncovered toilet. With the use of lasers in a recent study, it is shown just how far...

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When this COVID pandemic will end?

Jhana @solidcodes (1798) • Philippines 18 Sep 21

It will be nice if this pandemic will end after 1 or 2 years. But I think it will end after 5 years in my country. The pandemic ruined our lives. When do you think this pandemic will end? What is your smart guess?

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The most beautiful surprise

Nevena Zivkovic @Nevena83 (66063) • Serbia 23 Jan 21

Good day friends Brother and Helena came today. I'm so looking forward to seeing her. I missed her a lot. They came in the afternoon and we were already playing outside and we went to see the sheep, so she fed them. We were...

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Once in a while, a question makes me think.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 13 Sep 20

The older I get, the less I think about what I used to call "important things". I gave up, friends. People are violent, hateful and proud. And the more power they have, the more richess they have, the worse they are. We are in...

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Negative effects of wearing a face mask

Evelyn @Mbenieve (567) • Kenya 18 Aug 20

Wearing a face mask has been made mandatory as a way of curbing the spread of Covid 19. The mask also protects you from infections caused by other viruses and bacteria that live in air, and that makes it very essential. But do...

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COVID-19 where you are

bostonphil @bostonphil (4459) • United States 19 May 20

I live in Austin, Texas. My state and my city are beginning to open up but with some restrictions. Myself, I am taking a wait and see attitude. I am 75 and have diabetes, thus, I am at high risk. I am retired and do not really...

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The Twenty-First-Century Virus: "Can you GUESS?"

Shavkat @Shavkat (141906) • Philippines 29 Apr 20

The majority know the answer and it is COVID-19. We cannot deny this fact that it is making our whole world upside down. Moreover, there other viruses that can be considered in the 21st century, such as SARS, HIV, etc. The most...

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What does toilet paper have to do with the virus?

Aleskys Cardozo @Aleskys (5879) • Venezuela 15 Mar 20

Actually it is a rhetorical question haha, I think they have exaggerated a little with the toilet paper in some countries, that what it leads to is excases, I say from experience, I know that you can not be leaving and for those...

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Corona Virus

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (3452) • United States 20 Jan 20

According to what I heard earlier, there is an illness called the Corona virus that mimics pneumonia and like pneumonia, can be deadly. It originated in China, though it is no longer confined there. Have you all heard of this?...

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Shingles Shot

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222314) • United States 6 Jun 19

I've been waiting quite a few weeks; but my shingles shot is in. The pharmacy has only been getting in a couple of doses per week; and I was on the waiting list. This is the newest type of shingles shot and should prevent me...

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Being at the Hospital Makes Me Feel Weak

@acelawrites @acelawrites (19272) • Philippines 9 Jan 19

It had been days that I have to pitch in on accompanying my sick sister in the hospital. She was confined several times after she got that third stroke! First it was the stroke and she was confined for a week; followed by...

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My Husband Has the Flu!

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40845) • Laguna Woods, California 8 Mar 18

Just when we thought we had avoided getting the terrible flu which has been going around this winter, my husband became ill on Tuesday afternoon. I took him to our doctor yesterday, and she confirmed that he has Influenza A. She...

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Have You Had a Flu Shot?

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40845) • Laguna Woods, California 31 Jan 18

Thousands of people in the U.S. have become sick with the flu and an unusually large number of people have died from it. I always get the flu shot every fall, and this year I am especially happy that I did. While we were in Las...

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This is a virus seen from the microscope

Rey Jesus Rocha Figueroa @UploderLega (115) 12 Nov 17

There are many diseases caused by viruses, but of the most deadly we know malaria, dengue, HIV, among others, which does not mean that they do not exist anymore with the capacity to kill, and that their existence or cure is not...

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In case of Sore throats doctors prescribe anti-biotics, but how are viruses dealt with?

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23240) 24 Oct 17

Generally cold and cough are caused by different viruses. After some time, people get sore throats. In case of sore throats, doctors prescribe anti-biotics ike Zofacin 500, which arrests bacteria. But I dont have a clue how are...

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Why would you want to become a hacker?

staycyde @stacysdeadright (232) • United States 26 Mar 17

Why would you become a hacker? I know that it in some cases it is frowned down upon by society but I think that it is an amazing skill to have. If you were a hacker, what would you want to hack into most of all?

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