Actor Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films, spoke Monday of his fears after contracting swine flu, saying he initially thought he might die.
Grint described contracting the A(H1N1) virus, which has spread around the world, as “quite scary” but he recovered after spending a few days in bed.
New York/Washington (May 21, 2009): Worried parents kept children at home in New York on Wednesday out of the fear that they might catch A(H1N1) influenza, commonly known as swine flu, after the virus had forced officials to close schools.
WORRIED parents kept children at home in New York out of the fear that they might catch swine flu, after the virus had forced officials to close schools.
Sorry for getting this up late. I had it mostly written but then got distracted writing a song for next year’s American Idol. If anyone can come up with a rhyme for “made it through the storm,” I’ll give you cowriter credit and 5% of the royalties. We talked about the swine flu (or H1N1 or whatever the actual name is) a few weeks ago, and I kind of thought the fear was going to die down. But over the past few days I’ve gotten a couple of emails that basically said, “Aren’t you terrified, living
In Japan, when people get even a little bit sick they wear a mask. If you ride the train everyday, you’re likely to see at least one person wearing a mask everyday. If there’s a bug going around, some people will wear masks in an attempt to avoid getting sick. If there’s a fear of some sort of epidemic, people will go to the drug stores and buy up all the masks. Recently, Japan has been making a lot of noise about the swine flu. People are getting checked for flu symptoms at the airport.