[jlogajan]

Up here in Minnesota starting in November usually, we too see white whispy stuff start to descend from thousands of feet up. Sometimes it is just a dusting, sometimes it can come down and cover inches at a time. Special trucks have to push it off the streets. It is usually all gone by late spring, though. I don't know if it is terrorist related or not -- it doesn't seem to be associated with anthrax, but there is usually a steep increase in influenza and other respiratorial illnesses.

[JustPiper]

but there is usually a steep increase in influenza and other respiratorial illnesses.

For the last 3 seasons there has been an alarming increase in viral, sinusitis, allergies etc. Our pharmacy has been seeing nearly every patient getting some sort of antibiotic, allegra, zpaks etc. Many say they have never had allergies ever. I always felt it was airborne, didn't know how of course. The sy mptoms also have a pattern. I'd said 60% start nasally, the rest in throat. most don't reach the lungs thank God. Another thing is it seems many antibiotics are useless. I found the best success for fever and infection seems to be zpak and cheratussin for the coughs. But one thing is certain it is chronic.