bumbershoot
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2007
It's not some super bug that's sweeping the country as many people here seem to think. "You got sick in Florida? OMG, my sister just got sick in Montana!" Come on, people..
People *think* there's a bug that lots of people are getting? Huh. I'll tell myself that when I'm up tonight coughing for an hour to the point of being sick and crying from misery.
I'll also tell my son, who got this before I did.
Now, we haven't been to WDW, but we were at DLR, and the transmission time works out for getting it while there. Probably from some railing where someone from somewhere else had put their germs accidentally.
And then while we weren't yet sick BUT contagious without knowing it (as things work with colds and flus and pretty much every communicable disease out there) we were spreading it ourselves. To people who might not be from around here, who will then get sick at their home in their state, and then spread it to others.
That's kind of how these things spread. From community to community, and state to state b/c not everyone you come into contact with (even by a shared railing, LOL) is from your own community.
I don't find it to be dire; I find it to be part of life, part of being an organism not coated in Teflon or covered in a plastic bubble...but it IS something that happens.
OP, sorry you got sick.
As for the timing of food poisoning, who knows? What I learned in food services health class said one thing; what the owner of a pizza place that we called to make them aware of a problem said, based on the food services class HE took was entirely different. Exactly opposite, actually. Some people say food poisoning starts very quickly, others say there's a delay.
If only we could go to walk-up, no doctor required, labs to give them whatever we feel is needed and ask them to test it for whatever we want them to test it for. Would make things much more scientific, to KNOW what's going on in our bodies, than to rely on "if you have a fever, it's most likely THIS, but if you feel faint it's most likely THAT", etc.