Agents of Disease

Someone I know has been teaching music to pre-schoolers. She spent the entire winter sick as a dog, and frantically soliciting suggestions about how to protect herself from the germs of the under five set. Of course we recommended vitamin C and frequent hand-washing, until she told of a time when she turned to sing to a little girl and the child SNEEZED RIGHT INTO HER MOUTH! I think I would probably throw myself right off a cliff if it happened to me.

In February, I spent a week taking care of my mother, who had the flu. And how do you think she got it? From living with a bunch of old people, that's how. As soon as she got better, I went down at the count of three, and was sick as a dog for a of couple days. (Of course, no one took care of me, but that's another story.)

The moral is: who spreads disease? Children and the elderly, that's who!