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Woah. Either I have never really had the flu before, or this is a different strain that I have no immunity to because I’m out of my normal area of the world…

I started feeling a headache on Tuesday, woke up on Wednesday with the same headache then gradually through the day felt worse and worse. Waking on Thursday I was incredibly hot, so opening the windows I’d find myself then shivering. I wound up spending all day Thursday and Friday in bed with a sore throat, dodgy nose, extremely sore throat, fever, sweating, shivers (I sometimes went from shivers to sweating then back to shivers within minutes).

This afternoon is the first day I’ve really been able to get out of bed. I am still very low on energy, but my only symptoms right now are that I feel hot and my throat is still sore.

So, does anyone know if our world is still “small” enough for immunity (of sorts) to “local” flu to mean nothing when you catch a foreign flu? I know in the days of the explorers, many people from local tribes in Africa and the Americas died as the European explorers brought over illnesses the locals had no immunity to.