Whenever I hear "bird flu" I expect it to be followed by a preposition and then continue: Bird flu out the window. If I ever caught it I would probably die with that puzzled, anticipatory expression still on my face.

Update: Virginia is getting hammered.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/WeeklyFluActivityMap.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/

Damn. Just what I don't need. Thanks for the head's up.

My mother got a flu shot this year. She just came home with the flu. Hilarious.

Perhaps they ate the tainted peanut butter and just think they have the flu?

Shit.

That map is worthless though. Virginia is a big state. I'm up near DC, I'm actually soaking in it right now, and DC has "sporadic" activity, so I assume that the Virginia widespread activity is elsewhere.

The Virginia concentration could be the result of commuters to DC. People go to the doctor near home, not near work, in most cases.

Alright, who coughed on the Inauguration crowd?

I was telling people that was the perfect setting to just send in a bunch of disease vectors ...

...or we could admit the numbers are stacked.


Higher Virginia flu numbers explained
By Tammie Smith
Published: January 24, 2009

Virginia is the only state reporting widespread flu, according to a federal map that shows where flu is occurring.

But there might not necessarily be more sniffing and sneezing going on here than in other states. Virginia has switched to a more sensitive method of finding cases of flulike illness.

"I have no reason to think Virginia is experiencing more influenza right now than other states," said C. Diane Woolard, division director for surveillance and investigation at the Virginia Department of Health.

"I think the difference is really in how we collect the data. We have changed how we do flu surveillance in the last couple of years," Woolard said.

In my limited experience, people in the Northern Virginia/DC area tend to pick doctors near work. Otherwise you might never have time to actually get to the doctor between commuting and serving time for murdering people because of said commute.

Things are progressing

I hope you all got your shots.

(see the map at the bottom of the link)

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/

Updated.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/

Texas? Looks like Bushie must've taken it home with him....

Update.

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/...ng-Recess.html