Deltacron Discovered In Cyprus!

[WBA1955]

I’ve had flu once, thankfully over New Year 1999-2000 so that I was able to escapee the party.

It was the most ill I have ever felt and I said at the time that if I’d been 75-80+ it would probably have killed me.

I was catching winter chest viruses every year through my 40’s and 50’s so I started having the flu jab and I now haven’t had a winter virus since that first flu jab.

People haven’t got a clue until they get proper flu,it really p e e s me off when I hear people say they’ve got the flu when they’ve actually got a really heavy cold!

Proper flu absolutely wipes you out, I was very ill for about 10-14 days and it took me a further month to get back to normal.

No wonder there’s a shortage of tinfoil in Harrogate and Kingswinford!

Yes most people say Flu when it's a heavy cold they have.
Real Flu kills thousands of people every year, especially the old. But we have never worried about it before.

[baggiematt]

The thing about vaccines and antibiotics are they are effective for the first one or two jabs.

That’s not correct about vaccines. There are loads of viruses that require more than two doses to be effective. Polio for example, needs 4 doses of a vaccine and took 4 years to gain herd immunity.

[mickd1961]

I’m immune to Chicken Pox by some strange quirk of fate which by definition means I can’t get shingles.

My dad had a very rare case of shingles of the middle ear which was horrendous and cost him his balance, he had to learn to walk again in his late 50’s.

When he was diagnosed the specialist said it was only the second case of it that he’d seen in 33 years of practicing medicine.

[Q165]

I agree with Mick about the flu. When I was 17/18 I caught the Hong Kong flu. I was a fit and strong lad but it completely poleaxed me and I was on my back for weeks. I would vomit regularly and could not even keep the tiniest sip of water down without retching and feeling like my guts were going to come up (the vomiting was always like that). I would have weird dreams when I managed to drop off for a moment and must have been seriously dehydrated. When I eventually managed to get out I had lost so much weight my clothes barely fitted. I am sure that what I had would have killed an older or weaker person. I get so angry when I hear people say that they have 'had a touch of the flu'. They know nothing.

When I was 10 I had the smallpox vaccination and was immediately ill. I was off school for ages and during that time had an epileptic fit. I would always say that this sudden onset of epilepsy was in some way connected with my reaction to the vaccination. I was always pooh pooh'd.

[baggieal]

I think you are spot on with different people's weak spots. I never picked up any childhood illnesses despite all my friends going down with them. Some people tend to catch everything that's going.
The thing about vaccines and antibiotics are they are effective for the first one or two jabs, but if you keep having them your immunity system begins to rely on them, and a vitrus or bacteria will mutate to get around them. We have seen it before with the flesh eating disease that anti biotics had no effect on.
I have never had Flu, I hope I never do, I know people who have had it really bad.

Spot on Des! People have strong immune systems and others do not which is why have a flu job if you have never had it - makes no sense! Just open windows FFS.

I used to manage food and beverage consultants for a travel company who were sent to the Dom Republic due to sickness bugs. Many staff live in mud huts and don't wash their hands when going to the loo but work in posh hotels - they have cast iron immune systems so don't get ill ( even drinking the water ) where tourists do. Same principle.

Generally you are a sickie person or you are not!

[Dubbag]

May not be the case though.....taken from Sky website..
Deltacron variant 'probably doesn't exist'

Some experts are saying the "Deltacron variant" - a variant that combines characteristics of Delta and Omicron - probably doesn't exist.

Dr Jeffrey Barrett, director of the COVID-19 Genomics Initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, said: "This is almost certainly not a biological recombinant of the Delta and Omicron lineages.

"The apparent Omicron mutations are located precisely and exclusively in a section of the sequence encoding the spike gene (amino acids 51 to 143) affected by a technological artifact in certain sequencing procedures."

Prof Ewan Birney, deputy director general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, said the evidence is "strongly suggestive" of a "co-infection event or a laboratory contamination, many of which are very subtle and complex to track".

"Currently therefore scientists worldwide are carefully considering the possibility of the Deltacron variants, but a key first step is to confirm if this recombination has actually occurred or if the findings are due to a sequencing artifact when looking at both Omicron and Delta," he said.