(April 22, 2016 at 4:40 pm)abaris Wrote:(April 22, 2016 at 4:38 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Well, had I lived in the pre-antibiotic era, the complications would certainly have killed me. I was pretty delerious and incoherent when I was finally admitted to the hospital, but I can imagine how horrifying it would be to be a witness to that kind of illness, especially when people are dying wholesale.
Not that antibiotics would help with the flu anyway, since it's viral and not bacterial. But we're quickly moving there again with MRSA.
The complications were bacterial pneumonia. If the antibiotics were useless my insurance company spent $17,000 on antibiotics for nothing.
