[_Jim]

Anecdotes often serve as 'leading indicators' and a starting point for discussion ... besides, I wouldn't be so quick to brush off another's personal experience as retold factually simply as 'anecdotal' ... I have in the last five or so years found a 'cure' - a preventative cure - for that once re-occuring malady ...

[Fishing-guy]

The important thing now is to locate the animal reservior of the virus to prevent future animal-to-human transmission of the disease.

[per loin]

An anecdote offered in contradistinction to established statistical reality does not qualify as a leading indicator, and your injection of your personal woes into a discussion of when the flu season peaks (a statistical reality) certainly qualifies as anecdotal. That said, glad to hear that you no longer suffer that recurring malady. Stay well. It's better for you.