Reply #90: Everyone can get flu. They go to a doctor when they get "sick". The fact that so many

[McCamy Taylor]

healthy adults are forced to seek medical care--even though, as adults they should have plenty of underlying immunity to different strains of influenza to help their bodies avoid the worst symptoms---suggests that there is a new sheriff in town. I.e. a type of flu so unlike any that they have encountered before that they are getting sicker than they would with an more ordinary human influenza strain. So, they are reacting like infants and small children, who typically get much sicker with flu, because they have not had a chance to develop any natural immunity.