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[nicam]

So, I live in Geoje, not Seoul. I pretty much just have the regular flu or something, actually more like a sore throat, fever, and fatigue.

Anyway, the school administrator just got this mysterious call, and after hearing my name thrown around the room a few times, one of the teachers with some English came over and asked me if I felt sick or had been around anyone who'd been to America lately. I have NO voice, which looks bad, so I wrote down that I just have a cold with a sore throat and no voice. He said "they" are checking up on all of the foreigners in Korea, hence the phone call and questions.

Anyway, I was going to go to the hospital for my sore throat and fever, but I'm afraid they are going to quarantine me or something bat sh** crazy like that because I am American and displaying flu-like symptoms.

Is this totally irrational, or should we foreigners expect this sort of thing in health clinics today?

[madxkilla]

TOTALLY irrational

[nicam]

HaHa, guess the phone call just creeped me out.

[Panda]

That is a cutest avatar ever

[nicam]

Thank you, I was going for total cute overload!

[Looney]

[JongnoGuru]

[Colorado]

You have good reason to be paranoid. They've already locked down a number of foreigners who might have been exposed to the virus. If you go to a hospital with flu symptome, you will likely be quarrantined until they can figure out exactly what you've got.

[Robot_Teacher]

I can see where the OP is coming from on being concerned and fearful, becuase it's not normal to have the flu at this time of the year in the Northern hemisphere. It's almost June! Flu and cold season typically runs from late November to February or early March in northern temperate climates while it would roughly run from May to July or August in the South such as New Zealand.

OP, just go get checked out, becuase if it is H1N1 or whatever that really bad flu is called, it could kill you if you don't get help. Better to get quaranteened and treated if you do have the unthinkable as to be able to go home again than to suffer your last fate on some almost unknown island of Korea.

[lsrupert]

I don't think that you have anything to worry about. Go to the Dr. and get it checked out. My roommate also had the same symptoms for around a month. She went to multiple Doctors, and was never quarantined. They just gave her medicine and sent her home. We are in Seoul, though. I don't know what they are like where you live.

[bassexpander]

Bring a small kit of your needed toiletries and whatnot... if they do hold you for a week, who cares! It's a week off! Bring a notebook computer, too.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Do you like big, inter-muscular jabs in the ass? Because that will probably be one of the first items of business.

[rkc76sf]

What are you talking about? Your voice sounds fine to me! Just kidding. When I came back from the US about three weeks ago with my wife and 20 month old son, we came through Incheon and they were checking everyone, taking temperatures and all. Unfortunately we bought plane tickets and went on vacation right in the middle of the flu outbreak. Anyway, to make a long story short, after we got back, the government called my wife about five times to see how we were doing. I told her it's ridiculous to think the government can keep in touch with EVERYONE who comes through Incheon's gates, but I guess they're trying.

[superacidjax]

[simIAN]

A lady from the CDC just called me and asked me if I had any symptoms of being sick....I was like "Oh you wanna know if I have Swine Flu?"

I told her I was fine, lol