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Dave Smith > wrote:

> I had a bad experience with them too. My wife had bought some as a
> special treat for Christmas breakfast. I had been out to a Christmas
> party the night before and had had quite a bit of eggnog. My system does
> not cope well with a lot of cream (or too much rum) and I assumed that
> combination was the cause, but it turned out that I was coming down with
> a case of stomach flu. I ended up staying home on Christmas Say while my
> wife and son went out for the family Christmas dinner and I spent most
> of the day on the throne.


There's really no such thing as stomach flu--influenza is a respiratory
disease. You had gastroenteritis, which can be caused by a host of
organisms: Norwalk gastroenteritis or other viruses, or bacteria such
as E. coli, salmonella, shigella, or Staphylococcus aureus.

There's a good chance you had food poisoning, especially if the eggnog
contained raw eggs, as it often does.

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