(<-- Just playing devil's advocate) So I would ALWAYS get sick during "fall/winter" time and when I get sick it lasts for at least a month (usually a cold turns in to a sinus infection for me, and for most of my youth also an ear infection). Anyway, freshman year of college I was really sick (as in I passed out while in the doctor's office.) They recommended I get the flu shot since my immune system was so bad at that point. I'd never had the shot before, but I had had the flu in high school (I lost like 5 pounds in a week or less, I felt like I was dead). Every year since then I've had the flu shot (free as a student, no more free shots for me now...) I have YET to get sick during the winter/fall season .... **
I just think it's important to educate yourself before getting hysterical about things. My Mom called and said she's so nervous she's bringing her own soap in to her office's bathroom since what's in there already isn't that "germ killing".
It is kind of a good thing when things like this happen and people become more conscious of ways people can transmit germs, but mass hysteria for no reason isn't good.
All the same, I just hope no one I know gets ill! (That includes you YT ladies!)
-Vicky
** I did get mono a year ago, but that was from a cruise ship
that I was on in August that didn't believe in straws for their cups...