[hinckley buzzard]

This is incompetent and dangerous reporting. This year's flu has as its targets not the aged and infants and infirm but the healthy middle ager--like the Spanish flu of 1918.

[bigheadfred]

I had this flu. I am 52. Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse it got worse.

We had a friend that died from it. He was 63.

[AnAmericanInEngland]

The people least likely to go to a doctor. Except for pregnant middle aged persons, who are usually under doctor care.

[exDemMom]

The reporting is accurate. In any given year, several strains of influenza are circulating. The strain that is seriously infecting an unusual number of young teens and adults this year is the H1N1, the one that caused the pandemic in 2009. The Spanish influenza in 1918 was also an H1N1 virus, but was far more deadly.