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FEVERISH, achy, zero energy, a throat like you’ve swallowed razorblades, a lingering cough, even tummy issues . . .
The flu doing the rounds is no joke and if we haven’t had it ourselves yet we’re bound to know someone who has. It left Jaimie Davids, a 28-year-old teacher from Cape Town, flattened for days. “I had this heavy feeling in my head and I was coughing a lot,” she says. “As a teacher I’m used to coughing a lot because of all the talking I do, but this was something else. I’ve never had flu like this before.”
Jacques Watermeyer (54) from Jeffreys Bay can relate. “I was down for more than a week,” he says. “I found it extremely difficult to breathe and that’s