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Well, they all suck if you get them badly enough. I have a nasty sore throat right now. I'm knocking back super strength Vitamin C tablets like candy. Tonsillitis must be horrible. But vomiting viruses are also very nasty.
A year a go, I had the common influenza with coughing, sore throat, fever and body aches. It was horrible for sure but it didn't make an impact me on me.
6 years ago I had a stomach virus with fever, nausea and body aches. It left a huge mark on me physically and mentally - Made me lose proficient weight, energy and it gave me psychological issues when it came to what food to eat (fear of food poisoning and such). That's mainly because I have a huge phobia of vomiting...Give me another bad set of influenza any day over one that involves the stomach.
Both of these had their symptoms lingering on me for 2-3 weeks. But the stomach virus one felt like a lifetime. Not to mention how it had the audacity to come back with its aftershocks and waves after a few months (doctors did say that I mentally made myself 'nauseous' and 'sick' and that it didn't really 'come back').
Personally my experience with norovirus was horrible. Vomiting and diarrhea, very sudden. So bad I passed out and hit my face on something in the bathroom. Woke up with a bruise, looked like someone beat me. Spreads rapidly, so no wonder it hit that cruise ship so hard.
If an immunity compromised person contracted this, It would kill them or very least, they would be in the hospital. I have had it 2x.
Really the worst: I am thinking cholera? From what I have read, you can be dead within 24 hours from that.
Personally my experience with norovirus was horrible. Vomiting and diarrhea, very sudden. So bad I passed out and hit my face on something in the bathroom. Woke up with a bruise, looked like someone beat me. Spreads rapidly, so no wonder it hit that cruise ship so hard.
If an immunity compromised person contracted this, It would kill them or very least, they would be in the hospital. I have had it 2x.
Really the worst: I am thinking cholera? From what I have read, you can be dead within 24 hours from that.
Cholera isn't caused by a virus, its a bacterium....
In the developed world mortality is less than 1% if treated promptly. Even if it were a virus, wouldn't be in the top 10....
Personally my experience with norovirus was horrible. Vomiting and diarrhea, very sudden. So bad I passed out and hit my face on something in the bathroom. Woke up with a bruise, looked like someone beat me. Spreads rapidly, so no wonder it hit that cruise ship so hard.
This sounds like brutal food poisoning than a norovirus.
Two of them (and no, it's not any of the exotic ones like Ebola or Marburg) : smallpox and good old fashioned flu. Smallpox has killed the most people overall, but it has been eradicated thanks to the vaccine. Flu has killed millions and millions of people, especially elderly, very young, and immunocompromised patients. There are other rather common viruses which have killed many people, such as measles, dengue, typhus, tetanus, and rabies, but they hardly kill anyone anymore, once again thanks to the wonders of vaccination. Oh, I almost forgot meningitis and pneumonia, which still kills a sizable number of people, because far fewer are vaccinated against it.
Norovirus is not always foodborne. You can get it from the air, doorknobs, being around other people with the virus, etc. Its symptoms are nearly homogeneous to those of influenza (fatigue, body aches, fever, lethargy, etc).
Most cases of food poisoning are bacterial infections (e.coli, salmonella, etc - NOT viruses). Vomiting is more projectile and intense. You are not contagious. In other words, you'd rarely spread it to the person next to you. And most notably, you don't have those "fluey" symptoms that the norovirus would give you.
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