I swear that a quarter of my Facebook friends say they're sick with the flu today......

[Yo_Mama]

39. Most of my family

Just about all of whom had the flu shot, btw.

I got it from my doctor. He and all of his staff got the flu shot, and they all got it.

I gave it to my husband. My one brother was coming for Christmas, and I called him and cancelled because I didn't want him to get ill. I avoided my entire family except for my husband over the holidays. My husband had the flu shot and got it. He is actually sicker than I at this point, which bothers me.

My brother who was coming here instead spent Christmas with my other brother and his family. They all got it from my sister-in-law's father, who didn't even know he was ill at the time. He had had the flu shot, and both my brothers and family had all had the flu shot. But every one of them became acutely ill.

This is in several different states, so I think a strain that is not covered by the flu shot is spreading. It causes high fever, cough, aches, exhaustion and then secondaries like sinus/ear/lung infections. Also a lot of people are having gastric complications, which tends to make the dehydration worse and set them up for secondaries.