Over the festive and new year period most of us will have known someone who was struck down by a nasty winter illness.
With a new coronavirus variant emerging, prevalence of flu increasing, and lots of other seasonal bugs going round - it's hard to know for sure exactly what you've come down with.
The latest covid strain, called XXB.1.5 has been causing concern n the US, where it's projected to be making up 40.5 per cent of Covid-19 cases nationally. Doctors in the UK have warned that the variant is already linked to one in 25 cases here.
