[Karliner]

So, is this financed by the flu shot company? Too bad the strain isn’t even in the syringe.

[Pharmboy]

No--H3N2 was and is in this shot, and that is the flu A that is circulating. That same strain got me when I was a sophomore in medical school in 1968 and was known as the Hong Kong flu. I missed three days of school that week, the only absences I had in med school. I was really sick.

The Spanish Flu in 1918 was H1N1. There didn't seem to have been previous flu epidemics, and some serious scientists believe that it came from outer space (literally). That would also explain the high mortality rate since people had no immunity to this exovirus.