To think visiting a zoo can make you unwell?

[Yellowc]

Stay with me, I appreciate it might sound a bit bonkers.

Last time I went to the zoo in 2017 I came down with a virus the day after and was laid up for a week.

I visited the same zoo this week and as per last time, I'm coming down with a similar thing now.

Is it coincidence?

I'm as sure as can be that it's not covid. I don't have any of those symptoms.

Update. It's coronavirus. My test was positive.

I'm in shock. I had NONE of the textbook symptoms we're told to look out for.

That must be quite the surprise.

Have you any idea where you might have caught it, where were you in the two weeks before you went to the zoo?

It will now be interesting to see if you are contacted by the track and trace people, would you have been in close contact with anyone you needed to report to them.

On the good side luckily you haven't had a severe symptoms, hope you recover quickly

My DH is a manager in a busy shop so it could have come from there, although he's had no symptoms himself.

I've also been on a few busses, visited my osteopath, had contact with my step children and my aunt.

I'm more worried about my DM than I am me at the moment, she's almost 70 and smokes although she's absolutely fine at the moment. No symptoms.

I've been doing my own contact tracing this morning and letting everybody know to be tested. I'll report back if I'm contacted by the track and trace department.

As it's 7 days since my first symptoms I can safely leave isolation from today but everybody else has to stay in for another 7.

I'm in shock about this. When I went to bed last night I felt perfectly back to normal. I'm full of anxiety now.

Glad you seem to be feeling better now. At least you did everything right - wearing a mask on the tube and isolating to be on the safe side while waiting for test results.

Have the reest of your family ordered tests as well? If it had come via your DH you'd think they would have been other cases in his shop which obvioulsy there haven't been or he'd aleady know.

I don't suppose you'll ever know for sure but I'm interested in how community transmission happens

@Yellowc

My glands are up and my throat feels tight, I feel really lethargic and no energy to move. This happened last time I went and I was laid up for a week.

Can an allergy do that to somebody then? ^

I'm intrigued if so!

I suspected perhaps it was from being in the indoor rainforest exhibition where the sloths are within touching distance, steam is fired into the setting to keep the heat up and it's extremely hot.

Not a zoonotic illness persay but germs from the environment?

That's exactly how I feel with hayfever if I don't take antihistamines, if that helps.

Sorry rtft now

I have a similar thing with one of my friends. She's American and lives in the states so I've only seen her three times in the past decade. After each time we've met up I've come down with a vomiting bug. I can't figure out why.

Don't visit a zoo.