# Snake flu? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175 "2020-01-29T17:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/1 "2020-01-29T17:50:13Z")
I understand the coronavirus could have started with [snakes](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-origin-snakes.html&ved=2ahUKEwiW0MOXrannAhV6lnIEHQX4BVsQFjADegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw15KZeIXgIEBEXhTcKJ_GGW). Which makes me sssomewhat concerned about the sssymptoms of my current chest cold. I have developed a terrible hissssing cough. Last night I was rolling around on the carpet and my ssskin sssloughed off. Not to make light of the current health crisssisss, but what are other sssigns I might have cobra/krait influensssa? ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/2 "2020-01-29T17:54:50Z")
Just Kaa-lm down, just slytherin to bed and you’ll be fine later. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/3 "2020-01-29T17:54:59Z")
Have you began to feel a deep antipathy for G.I. Joe? ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/4 "2020-01-29T17:58:31Z")
Ssssslither up to a mirror and check for fffangssss. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/5 "2020-01-29T18:00:44Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Just Kaa-lm down, just slytherin to bed and you’ll be fine later. I tried curling up in bed lassst night, but I could not get comfortable. I am going to try to find some tall grassss to lie in today and sssee if that isss better. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/6 "2020-01-29T18:01:57Z")
If you start ‘rattlin’ it’s time to call in a Herpetologist. (I think that’s what they are called) ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/7 "2020-01-29T18:13:33Z")
Here, take this quiz: What sounds tastiest to you: a. A burger and fries b. An ice cream cone c. A live mouse ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/8 "2020-01-29T18:22:55Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Here, take this quiz: > > What sounds tastiest to you: > > a. A burger and fries > > b. An ice cream cone > > c. A live mouse I am not terribly hungry right now, but after all I did eat lassst week and my belly wasss quite ssswollen at the time. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/9 "2020-01-29T20:00:16Z")
Do you steal root beer? ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/10 "2020-01-29T20:16:55Z")
Have you ever been up an apple tree offering apples to a nekkid woman? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/11 "2020-01-29T20:29:40Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Have you ever been up an apple tree offering apples to a nekkid woman? Not recently. I am feeling a little better. I took a couple of asp-irin. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/12 "2020-01-29T20:39:25Z")
Do you have health insurance through Cobra? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/13 "2020-01-29T21:17:44Z")
I rrrread rrrrecently that they found strrrrange prrrrions in the brrrrains of farrrrmed salmon, leading me to wonderrrr if we arrrre about to see an epidemic of Mad Fish Disease. And now, rrrreading about the Chinese culinarrrry habit of eating bats and snakes, and seemingly getting diseases frrrrom them, I wonderrrr: Arrrre we about to see an epidemic of Mad Bat Disease or Mad Snake Disease? If I werrrre **Biotop** (and even if I werrrren’t), I’d be afrrrraid. Verrrry afrrrraid. (ETA: [Cite.](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090616080143.htm)) ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/14 "2020-01-30T01:02:12Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Do you have health insurance through Cobra? No. But my health savings account covers the repTylenol. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/15 "2020-01-30T01:51:44Z")
[CDC Official]There issss nothing to be alarmed about. If a ssslight fever appearssss, ssswallow a sssssmall rodent, and hibernate till Ssspring.[/CDC Official] ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/16 "2020-01-30T09:19:05Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > [CDC Official]There issss nothing to be alarmed about. If a ssslight fever appearssss, ssswallow a sssssmall rodent, and hibernate till Ssspring.[/CDC Official] Sssmall rodent, my assssss! I’m going to eat a whole elephanttttt! [Ceci n’est pas un chapeau](https://stephaniebrewton.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/6a00d83455b25469e201156e499e03970c-320wi.jpg?w=263) ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-flu/847175/17 "2020-01-30T13:12:48Z")
Breathing much better today. My wife applied sssome Vick’sss Viper Rub.