Night Chills

Starting to recover from recent bout of flu-like illness, and having had some feverish restless nights coughing, I penned this. I do not in the least think it likely Venus has anything to do with outbreaks of flu - it just shows how easy it is to align one set of data.

It's stated here:

"The hypothesis is that there are bacteria and viruses in the upper atmosphere of Venus (they've got to be acidophiles) and that during Venus inferior conjunctions with Earth, some of them can be swept away by solar storms and reach Earth in a viable state. Based on 20th century events it appears that these Venusian "drop-ins," (including influenza and influenza-like illnesses) tend to make themselves known one to two months after the inferior conjunction."

But consider this from one commentator: "a virus does not evolve or reproduce independently. It originates as a mutated chip off of a strand of DNA from a more complex organism. It can only reproduce by entering the cells of a creature to which its genes are fairly closely related. In effect, a flu bug mates with you and together you produce offspring. No molecule that developed in outer space would have contained a strand of DNA similar enough to a human’s to have caused any flu epidemics. "

The virus experts put it more succinctly:
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/05/23/sars.fromspace/

Night Chills

Venus, bright in the dawn sky

Cold and feverish was the night

Shivering in the pale moonlight

Awakenings with pain I cry

In ancient times, an evil sprite

Would, they say, caused affright;

Venus, bright in the dawn sky

Cold and feverish was the night

The fever breaks, but here I lie

The invisible enemy, my blight

Departing like a dark Knight

My mind is free, once more I fly

Venus, bright in the dawn sky