Interesting, a pandemic in 1968. I have never had the flu shot, I have never had the flu. I was born in 1968, July so at six months or older, I would have been capable of producing antibodies. Of course, I am still young. I will wait for the vaccine when I am older.
My hubby has had the flu once, never had a vaccine. Born after 1968.
No correlation, I was born in 57, never had a shot, never had the flu. Staying away from children helps, they are germ farms if they go to public school.
The Hong Kong flu in 1968 was a nasty. I knew adults who were laid out for weeks, unable to eat more than one or two crackers with peanut butter on them made by their kids. One later said that fully recovery from its debilitating effects took months.
“The Hong Kong Flu was a category 2 flu pandemic caused by a strain of H3N2 descended from H2N2 by antigenic shift, in which genes from multiple subtypes reassorted to form a new virus. The Hong Kong Flu pandemic of 1968 and 1969 infected an estimated 500,000,000 people with a low death rate. Fifty million people were infected in the United States, resulting in an estimated 34,000 deaths.”
It is interesting that it would lay you out, but had just normal mortality rates. Adults tended to suffer more from the disease than children, and I noted that none of my peers was out of school for any length of time.