• Question: Whats the worst illness you have had?

    Asked by to Peter, Bethany, Hannah, Keith, Ramya on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Peter Elliott answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Well fortunately I never managed to infect myself with anything I have worked with. One bug I have a lot of experience with ,Campylobacter (cam-pie-lo-back-ter), can make you very unwell indeed.

      However, the most ill I have ever been was when I was 16 and I caught the flu. I had always thought that I had caught the flu, when actually I’d just had a pretty bad cold. But when I had the flu I got hot shivers, I couldn’t lift my arms or legs and I was barely conscious. So I missed a whole week of school being monitored in bed. Thankfully I survived and now have a better sense of what having the flu actually feels like.

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      Bethany Dearlove answered on 24 Jun 2014:

      The worse illness I’ve had was E. coli. Most types of E. coli are harmless, and it’s commonly found in our gut. However, the strain I had wasn’t the friendly sort, and to make it doubly worse, turned out to be resistant to the first set of antibiotics I was given – allowing it to spread even further. For something so small, it caused some of the worst and most awkward pain I’ve ever experienced.

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