You Know You're Vermin When...

You manage to harbour a virus silently and then lay the new boyfriend low in bed for a couple of weeks. And not in the good way. Turns out I'm a carrier for glandular fever (or mono, or kissing disease, or Epstein-Barr).

Persons with infectious mononucleosis may be able to spread the infection to others for a period of weeks. However, no special precautions or isolation procedures are recommended, since the virus is also found frequently in the saliva of healthy people. In fact, many healthy people can carry and spread the virus intermittently for life. These people are usually the primary reservoir for person-to-person transmission. For this reason, transmission of the virus is almost impossible to prevent.

(http://www.medic8.com/infectious-diseases/ebv.htm)

Ah great. I'm a "reservoir". And thinking about it I think I did the same thing to another guy a few years back, but we just assumed it was rather bad 'flu. I'm really sorry...

Don't worry, you won't catch anything unless you kiss me. And then you'd have to be one of those people who hadn't previously caught it off another snotty snivelling kid at nursery!