“The only time I ever had flu-like symptoms was after I received a flu shot while in the service in 1968. This was one of the first flu vaccines developed and servicemen were the Guinea pigs. It led to dozens, if not hundreds, of deaths.”
I have had forgotten that incident with myself, also in 1968. I spent a week of basic training at Ft Leonard Wood in the hospital there - worst fever, cough and sore throat of my life, and never again. I have never remembered it as “flu” and at the time made no association between the illness and the vaccines they had given us.
I don’t remember how many beds were in the ward, which was an open ward with two rows of beds. None were empty and all of us were sick with the same symptoms.
You’re lucky. I was hacking up green crap, woozy, and feverish (for about a month, mind you), yet when I tried to go on sick call I was told, “Beat it. You ain’t sick.”