# Whoa - swine flu again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-swine-flu-again/630065 "2012-08-01T15:40:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-swine-flu-again/630065/1 "2012-08-01T15:40:19Z")
I was pretty sick in 2009 with what didn’t turn out to be swine flu, but it made me a bit nervous and germaphobe-y there for awhile. I was checking some online flu reporting, and found that it might be rearing its ugly head again, although it might be too soon to tell: [Monroe County Fair](http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=190627) [Butler County Fair](http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=190692) [County Fair in Indiana](http://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/safe-fair-going.htm) Lesson to take away: don’t go hang out with the pigs at the county fair. ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-swine-flu-again/630065/2 "2012-08-01T15:49:24Z")
Ugh, I had swine flu in early 2010 and it knocked me out for a good month! So, you have good reason for concern, **teela brown**. It took a day to go from annoying cough to full-blown fever and chills. The fever lasted a couple weeks while the infection set up in my lungs with lots of awesome rattling and wheezing. I believe yearly flu vaccinations now cover swine flu. Regardless, I have my antibodies… Also, I was born in 1976 so I might have had some exposure to the 70’s epidemic. If you’re a young’un you have more reason to worry. Old? It’s survivable but awful.