I wonder if there's been any research done into folk epidemiology, i.e. how people believe a given illness has been transmitted.

I wonder how accurate "oh yeah I got that cold from alice" etc actually is.

@starkatt IIRC lots of people underestimate the incubation period for food poisoning - so they blame the restaurant they at at for dinner when really it was their own lunch what done it.

@mcmoots yeah I think I read somewhere that a couple of days is actually pretty common?

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