My wife just got over via ten days of Tamaflu influenza A , she had 103.6F at 0400 the first night she was sick by 0600 it was a hospital visit 104.1F they confirmed via two lab tests influenza A I am sure it was this H3 variant. It took IV fever reducers half a day to bring her under 102 for discharge, and 4 days of antivirals to not look like a walking corpse all white and weak. The ER started me on antiviral that morning and I just also finished 10 days worth never got sick but my blood work is loaded with antibodies for flu A now so I was infected the antivirals worked as designed. This version is no joke my wife is more than a decade younger, super fit, a literal yoga pants workout junkie girl all crossfit maniac, her first case of flu in 3 years and in her words “it kicked my add worse than meningitis did”
Word of advice don’t wait if someone in your cohort tests positive for influenza A immediately make your GP give you 75mg once per day for 10 days you have a 72 hour window from exposure not first symptom for it to have a 90% effective rate it drops fast to near zero at 72 hours after first symptom.
Half her private practice seems like (special needs children) are out with flu and whole families are sick and sequestered for the holidays no fun. 6 kids and 8 parents all have lab confirmed flu A it’s a mess in North Texas right now
Influenza Type A H2N2 is what went around in 1957, when I was age 6. I caught it and I was the sickest that I’ve ever been. I still remember it, I had fluid in my lungs for maybe 2 weeks.
Excess deaths from respiratory disease that year were over 60,000. It was considered the worst flu outbreak since 1918.