Getting tested for H5N1???

I am a very active watermen always in the ocean or the everglades surfing or wakeboarding. Last week my son and I were skateboarding at a local skatepark (FLorida) that borders a lake. The birds like to sit on the rails and poop. I kept flying out of the half pipe and putting my hand on the railing (in the dryed bird poop). Not intentionally it just happened.  2 days later he and I got the worst flu I ever experienced im my life. High fever, bloody noses, coughing, sneezing, headache, bodyache he was on the floor for 2 days neither one of us could move or eat. We usually laugh about the flu and continue doing everything we always do.  We are both better, but I still have this dry cough and no energy (2 weeks later). I don't get sick like this, I never get fevers or bloody noses.

My question is if I went to the doctor and had them do some tests would they be able to detect H5N1 virus? I don't think I have it I am just curious. But giving my life style I could  possibly be 1 of the canary's in the coal mind. 

The bug is bad this year i have had mine going on 4 weeks..I am tired and my eyes burn...I wake up stuffed up and I have tried evrything from neo citrin to aspirin..and it just keeps hanging on...if it stays around much longer and those migratory birds come back..the sespool might be right in our own home towns..

Good points

Virusil - I have been using the silver and didn't improve until I did start taking it again.  I haven't gone back to being as sick as I was the first few weeks since taking my silver.   I was REALLY sick before I started taking my silver again.  I'm one of those silly people who normally doesn't use something useful until I'm desperate.  Same with my neti pot.  I would probably never get sinus infections if I used it when I was well.  LOL!

Thank you calendula - why didn't I think of that?  I'm replacing my toothbrush right after I post this.  I hadn't and have been using the same toothbrush throughout most of this battle. 

I am hesitant to get another flu shot though after this.  Normally I float through the winter with no flu or a very mild case.   Not only am I going to replace both of my toothbrushes but I think I'll keep a little silver solution in the bathroom to disinfect the new one each time before I use it.  Maybe I'll shake this dang bug. 

I have different one for you:...my 14 year old who was 6 at the time this happened was getting hid last shot for DPTP....and well you know how they always,always!!! say he may get a re-action form the needle...well me being smartie pants mom said well he has already had 2 shots of this..he will be ok....OH NO...we get home and an hour later he is fevered at 103.4...and his leg where the shot was has swelled to the size of a quater..so I called the docs office and the nurse said..he should be ok,but if his temp hits 104 and it swells the size of a golf ball..take him to emerg..so i gave him some tylenol and it ease off..NOT an hour later..up to 104 and bigger then a gold ball...Now the sad thing is he was not having a reaction to the medication...HE was having a reaction to the needle....doc takes needle out of sterilized package and now it is exposed to the air..so on its way into my sons leg it had picked up something in the air(a bug of some type) and was injected into his leg..well now I listen to docs words..when he says the needle he means the needle)

I guess the morale of my story is if you go and get the flu shot it may not be the shot...but the person ahead of you may have sneezed and you picked up there germs..guess we better watch the avian flu shot line-ups

I have never gotten a flu shot in my life,  and I do not intend to,--perhaps I am biased as a natural health practitoner--but I know of some other health care professionals ( providers, nurses etc) that inject the flu-shot but do not take it themselves, it is a matter of a personal choice.  If you believe in the long run it will ok with your system, then life is good, if you read about its components and feel might do more harm than good in the long run, then don't do it.

so i was right................hep c ...................good diagnose

call me quack,but i will survive

calendula,...............what i can say.........

oknut please take your silver and finish your hep c as soon as possible

Last week my son and I were skateboarding at a local skatepark (FLorida) that borders a lake. The birds like to sit on the rails and SH*T. I kept flying out of the half pipe and putting my hand on the railing (in the dryed bird poop). Not intentionally it just happened. Mean while the whole time I am thinking great H5N1. 2 days later he and I got the worst flu i ever experienced im my life. High fever, coughing, bloody nose, sneezing he was on the floor for 2 days neither one of us could move. You KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING. I kept dismissing the idea of bird flu. kinda scary??? . .

Just got back from the doctor guess what I got?

pneumonia now the question is, was it pneumonia or Bird Flu pnemonia. It was actually pretty fun he put the x ray up 1 lung all black 1 lung all white.We both go "HMMMMMM". He said "you've got 1 really nice lung " and I said "and one not so nice lung"?. They put me on antibiotics. HMMMMMM makes me wonder.

more of the tests should be back next week

I didn't think I got it from the bird it was just a strange circumstance. The doctor said we will see next week. I've had it before. just not in the past 15 years. Last time I got it  took almost a year to get rid of it.