Sometimes, its difficult to diagnose yourself when your sick. Pineappleope.com is here to help.
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When you wake up sneezing, coughing, and have that achy back, feverish, can’t move a muscle feeling, how do you know whether you have cold symptoms or the mythical swine flu?
Easy.
Symptom: Fever
Fever is rare with a cold. Fever is usually present with the flu in up to 80% of all flu cases.
Symptom: Coughing
A hacking, productive (mucus- producing) cough is often present with a cold. A non-productive (non-mucus producing) cough is usually present with the swine flu (sometimes referred to as dry cough).
Symptom: Aches
Slight body aches and pains can be part of a cold. Severe aches and pains are common with the swine flu.
Symptom: Stuffy Nose
Stuffy nose is commonly present with a cold and typically resolves spontaneously within a week. Stuffy nose is not commonly present with the flu.
Symptom: Chills
Chills are uncommon with a cold. 60% of people who have the flu experience chills.
Symptom: Tiredness
Tiredness is fairly mild with a cold. Tiredness is moderate to severe with the flu.
Symptom: Sneezing
Sneezing is commonly present with a cold. Sneezing is not common with the flu.
Symptom: Headache
A headache is fairly uncommon with a cold. A headache is very common with the flu, present in 80% of flu cases.
Symptom: Sore Throat
Sore throat is commonly present with a cold. Sore throat is not commonly present with the flu.

A shocking sport growing in popularity over in Japan is Pig Rodeo – or as some call it, Swine Surfing. Tricia Takanawa, our Asian correspondent, travelled overseas to investigate. She summarizes it as “a one stop thrill ride to mud and death, as these pigs are smothered in gelatinous swine flu serum”. Wow.
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that the H1N1 flu pandemic was the fastest-moving pandemic ever and that it was now pointless to count every case.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The new strain of H1N1 flu is causing “something different” to happen in the United States this year — perhaps an extended year-round flu season that disproportionately hits young people, health officials said on Thursday.
While the yanks are sniveling about 

Jovovich did say “they all start like this.. its always the pigs. America had better get ready.” Fortunately for us – no one complains when Milla comes to town. She tends to not wear a lot of clothes and carries all kinds of weapons. She continued “when I battle the early onset of an outbreak, I start going after the swine with blunt objects.”

