Once was silence.
Twice was death.
Then I came.
And you simply
Fell asleep.
To win, name either me or me.
((The color changes indicate different speakers but they hold no other significance.))
Guesses from page 7500- 7529
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Clues:
It is a respiratory problem.
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Sin
some sort of poison or drug
regret
death
Kittens.
An angel
-Twins
-Romulus and Remus
-Gemini
anthropolgy
an end
An absence
Nighttime.
A storm
funeral
possibly drowning? The silent killer?
an overpowering force
Ice age
a cold? or illness
a coma? Or maybe a disease? might it be a specific illness
lung cancer? Or a disease of the respiratory system
Narcolepsy
Cataplexy
Bronchitis
Hypersomnia
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or tuberculosis
Somnolence, parasomnia, paraneoplastic syndrome, or dyspnea
Cystic Fibrosis or Emphysema? Sarcoidosis
asthma
tonsillitis, tuberculosis, lymphoma, mesothelioma, or emphysema
Sleep apnea
Acute bronchitis, Asbestosis, Avian flu, Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Croup, Cystic fibrosis, Histoplasmosis, Interstitial lung disease, Legionnaire’s disease, Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Pneumothorax, Pulmonary embolus, Pulmonary fibrosis, Pulmonary hypertension, Respiratory distress syndrome, Respiratory syncytial virus, Sarcoidosis, Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or Tuberculosis
Influenza
Influenza type A, B, or C
Chicken pocks
Respiratory syncytial virus? Bubonic plague
Spanish flu, Asian flu, or Hong Kong flu
Dengue, Typhoid, Cholera, Isavirus, Thogotovirus, H1N1, H2N2, H3N2, H5N1, H7N7, H1N2, H9N2, H7N2, H7N3, or H10N7
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Answer:
randomnessensues
"Sen got it. It's the Spanish Flu. Gorn's was also right when he guessed H1N1, but that was after Sen's answer.
"Here's the explanation of the riddle:
I came first.
Once was silence. The flu came in two waves. The first wave hit in the spring. It was highly contagious, but rarely deadly. It disappeared when summer came.
Twice was death. The second wave came in the fall. That was the deadly version of the Spanish Flu that everyone knows.
"I'm rather surprised the first part was the part that was solved. The second was much easier. It was sleeping sickness. There's actually more than one illness referred to as sleeping sickness: the one transmitted by the tsetse fly, and the one that had an epidemic from 1915 to 1926. The riddle was referring to the latter. It's also called sleepy sickness and encephalitis lethargica. Many researchers believe it is related to the Spanish Flu as some kind of immune response because they occurred almost one right after the other."
"Here's the explanation of the riddle:
I came first.
Once was silence. The flu came in two waves. The first wave hit in the spring. It was highly contagious, but rarely deadly. It disappeared when summer came.
Twice was death. The second wave came in the fall. That was the deadly version of the Spanish Flu that everyone knows.
"I'm rather surprised the first part was the part that was solved. The second was much easier. It was sleeping sickness. There's actually more than one illness referred to as sleeping sickness: the one transmitted by the tsetse fly, and the one that had an epidemic from 1915 to 1926. The riddle was referring to the latter. It's also called sleepy sickness and encephalitis lethargica. Many researchers believe it is related to the Spanish Flu as some kind of immune response because they occurred almost one right after the other."
