FlirtyKnickers

So...what have you picked up in Canada that you didn't have or never heard of in the UK?....

Strep throat is mine, mind you, almost every Canadian I meet has it once or twice a week it seems.

OH just got over Erysipelas. (scary stuff, don't google) so he's no longer allowed to socialise with said Canadians, they can stay away and keep their parasites to themselves, thank you very much!

No wonder Canadians carry Lysol in their handbags, i'm beginning to think i should too.

Auld Yin

Perhaps both conditions are related to living in an armpit. Armpits are not always healthy places.

FlirtyKnickers

, that could be true but it is Canada's Armpit...(I feel slightly grubby now)

Novocastrian

WTF is that supposed to mean? Get your head in order.

I don't use google anymore but I binged it.

Sounds distinctly nasty. Condolences to your OH.

It's a bacterial infection though, nothing to do with parasites.

FlirtyKnickers

Thanks Novo, 5 antiboitics pumped into his veins in 2 days and a shit load of painkillers have done the job..

FlirtyKnickers

Oooopsy, that's what i meant to say, i should proof read the stuff i spew out...

Novocastrian

Good news. Less good news is that I've only now noticed the location in your signature. Nonetheless Auld Yin lives up to the reputation he apparently cherishes as an objectionable, reactionary, old coot.

Chookie

Strep throat is just good old fashioned tonsillitis/sore throat... even in the UK it is still caused by the streptococcus bacteria..... Same kind of thing with mono (it is just glandular fever by a different name)

Me, I have not had anything with a "different name)... I do have fibromylagia, but that is still known by the same name here as across the pond....

FlirtyKnickers

Oh i know the strep is just plain old Tonsillitis. I just wondered what other lovely stuff people had contracted since arriving on these shores and what I need to buy a shit load of lysol to fend off...

Oink

Just a touch of boredomitis.

Novocastrian

Better known over here as ennuiemylifeis..

Alberta_Rose

My younger son was eventually diagnosed with mononucleosis, despite it taking us four visits to doctors, and I diagnosed it as glandular fever before ever the docs did.
They kept telling me it was flu, patently was not, but until he complained of liver/splenic symptoms they wouldn't listen.

The most scary thing I've seen here is several cases of necrotising fasciitis, resulting in limb loss to save lives!!

I had a weird fever for a few days last summer, complete with rigors, which was a first for me, but no other symptoms, and since I was away at the time, and was better by the time we got home, I never went to the docs and never found out what it was........beaver fever maybe?

Auld Yin

WTF is that supposed to mean? Get your head in order.

Her location is shown as Ontario's Armpit. Now you go and get your head in order.

Almost Canadian

If you read enough judgments, you will realise that Courts in Canada don't believe it exists, even if it is written correctly

caretaker

The lads on the carp fishing forum said the UK was rabies free, and you could certainly encounter it here. I saw the police snipe a rabid cat with a .22 in the city here once and there are a few wild animals that commonly carry it like skunks and raccoons. I encountered a muskrat that was likely rabid when I was ice fishing once. They used to say it took a series of ten huge needles in the belly to treat rabies, but I‘m not sure.