Ah... a fine vintage of flu! [/sarcasm]

I wonder if I caught this variety of nastiness? I still feel a shadow of it's icy clutches in my lungs and nostrils though I'm, for the most part, pretty functional and no longer bed ridden. Been pretty active the past couple of days though stepping outdoors into chilly weather did make me light headed for a while.

There always has been concern in the past about evolving/adapting illnesses and how much we rely on medicines and antibacterial items instead of letting our immune system handle it. I do wonder if that made any difference in the rate at which diseases adapt...

Vile Disease: LINK

Excerpt: ATLANTA - The government, for the first time, is urging doctors not to prescribe two antiviral drugs commonly used to fight influenza after discovering that the predominant strain of the virus has built up high levels of resistance to them at alarming speed.

A whopping 91 percent of virus samples tested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this flu season proved resistant to rimantadine and amantadine, a huge increase since last year, when only 11 percent were.

The discovery adds to worries about how to fight bird flu should it start spreading among people. Health officials had hoped to conserve use of two newer antiviral drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza, because they show activity against bird flu, unlike the older drugs.