Originally Posted by hatari
Doshi needs to contract influenza just once......and he'll change his tune. I'm talking about real influenze, and not one of the other myriad of other virus that roll around each Winter that people get and say they have "the flu".

Fever, body aches, high fever, sweats, debilitating fatigue and a week in bed is the best that can happen. The real "flu" is no joke. Watching a loved one suffer through it will make you think reall hard about the benefits of vaccines.
Gee. I guess my dad, a practicing internist since about 1960, was wrong all those thousands of times he's diagnosed influenza in his patients and family members.