This years sick season has run wild at PLU. Photo courtesy of blueprintbroadcast.com.
This winter, it seems like everyone and their mom has gotten sick. Whether it is right here on campus or all the way up in Seattle, the bug that is either a cold, the flu or some other form of disease that causes people to become bed-ridden for days on end.
The sickness that is inhabiting most PLU students is a viral infection, said the PLU Health Center. The viral infection is more than just then common cold though.
What this viral infection does is develop flu like symptoms without the fever or other major flu effects.
It starts with an achy body. After that it continues on to the throat and then a cough develops. Soon after all three evils take over and the person finds themself bed-ridden.
“After the first day I was already stuck in bed,” Stacey Barber, PLU senior said. “I coughed so much that I almost vomitted.”
If you are one of the many that catches this infection, there is not much you can do besides take over the counter medication as well as eat as much soup as you can, said the Health Center.
So, the Health Center advises peope who haven’t caught this virus yet to keep away from people who have it and live a healthy lifestyle, even more than you would have in the past.
They encourage people who have the virus to avoid going to class and places where there are groups of people. If the people with the virus stay away from healthy people, than less people will get the sickness.
