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PCIntern

(25,595 posts) Wed Sep 5, 2018, 01:03 PM Sep 2018

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What the hell is a "sickness bug"?

I’ve only been in healthcare as a licensed practitioner for 42 years. I’ve never heard that expression before.

But what do I know?

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What the hell is a "sickness bug"? (Original Post) PCIntern Sep 2018 OP

Sounds Like The Title Of A New Apocalypse Movie.... global1 Sep 2018 #1

it's the media struggling to describe an unidentified illness that appears to be very contagious unblock Sep 2018 #2

We used it to mean Virus. Teach29 Sep 2018 #3

Stomach flu. 24-hour flu. Food poisoning. The heaves. The trots. Hekate Sep 2018 #4

I have heard the terms 'sickness' and 'bug' Cirque du So-What Sep 2018 #5

Were they perhaps using 'sickness' in the sense of vomiting, TubbersUK Sep 2018 #6

It was a UK police officer, in a tweet about an ambulance meeting a plane muriel_volestrangler Sep 2018 #9

It's the opposite of a health bug qazplm135 Sep 2018 #7

Yeah, the reports are chock full of ignorant speculation mainer Sep 2018 #8

global1

(25,274 posts)

1. Sounds Like The Title Of A New Apocalypse Movie....

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 01:09 PM

Sep 2018

Is it the code word for the start of a worldwide epidemic?

unblock

(52,339 posts)

2. it's the media struggling to describe an unidentified illness that appears to be very contagious

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 01:11 PM

Sep 2018

Teach29

(33 posts)

3. We used it to mean Virus.

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 01:13 PM

Sep 2018

We used this term often in my house, as in “a bug is going around” or “Dads got a stomach bug”.

https://www.google.com/search?q=online+dictionary&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#dobs=bug

Hekate

(90,840 posts)

4. Stomach flu. 24-hour flu. Food poisoning. The heaves. The trots.

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 01:20 PM

Sep 2018

I would not want the contract to clean up that airplane.

Cirque du So-What

(25,989 posts)

5. I have heard the terms 'sickness' and 'bug'

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 01:26 PM

Sep 2018

but never together like that. Seems redundant.

TubbersUK

(1,439 posts)

6. Were they perhaps using 'sickness' in the sense of vomiting,

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 01:43 PM

Sep 2018

as per the UK usage.

In which case it's a bug (either viral or bacterial) that causes vomiting.

Was it a UK publication or press release?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,382 posts)

9. It was a UK police officer, in a tweet about an ambulance meeting a plane

Reply to TubbersUK (Reply #6)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:31 PM

Sep 2018

Yeah, I think this is saying "sickness" as a bit of a euphemism.

qazplm135

(7,447 posts)

7. It's the opposite of a health bug

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 02:21 PM

Sep 2018

thus instead of health, it brings sickness.

It's a highly technical term.

mainer

(12,031 posts)

8. Yeah, the reports are chock full of ignorant speculation

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 02:29 PM

Sep 2018

I've flown that Dubai - JFK Emirates flight. It's only 15 hours long.

It's long enough to acquire, and get sick from, a case of staph enterotoxin.
It's not quite long enough to acquire, and show symptoms of, salmonella.

It's not long enough to acquire, and show symptoms of, a viral URI.
It's not long enough (most likely) to acquire and show symptoms of viral gastroenteritis.

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