Originally Posted By: PeterPolyol
Several strains (not just 2 or 3) unleashed err I mean "coherently mutated in the wild" this year. They say at least one of the serotypes is the same one that punished Australia during their winter. It's the simultaneous assault of several serotypes at once that's really terrorizing people's immunity.
Yeah, I've heard that it's being referred to as the Australian flu.
My family got nailed in 2017, and we rarely get it, we had two bouts, although the latter probably was a bad cold while down from the flu.
Then some ENT thing a couple of weeks ago.