[quote name='PlumeNoir']This mono talk reminds me: my senior year in HS there was an outbreak of...something...TB for all I can remember. (Chika, that was a joke...) Turned out that more than 2/3rds of the student body hadn't been vaccinated, myself included. So, the 2/3rds of us had to stay home for a few weeks. (Except this girl I was kinda seeing at the time. Her parents pushed the school into letting her go to class anyway, so she wouldn't fall behind. She ended up not being valedictorian anyway, which bummed her out.)
On a different note, and this'll get me in trouble, I'm sure - but there's a little bit of snow out, but I was hearing a snowblower anyway. I walked out of my office, to look out the window...to discover that I was hearing Pixie snoring on the couch!
I'm going to tease her that she needs to have parts cut out, too.[/quote]
all signs point to pertussis aka whooping cough. highly contagious makes you cough like a goose that's been smoking 2-3 packs a day for 30 years.