Who Will and Who Won't Get the Flu?

[rangerrebew]

Who Will and Who Won't Get the Flu?

By Robert Preidt


THURSDAY, June 14, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors can't yet predict if someone exposed to the flu will become sick. But such predictions may be getting closer to reality, new research hints.

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine say they've identified a "biomarker" that indicates a person's susceptibility to flu viruses.

https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20180614/who-will-and-who-wont-get-the-flu

[Sanguine]

A typical Adult Over 30 Gets Flu Twice Every 10 Years per a study in WebMD https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20150303/typical-adult-over-30-gets-flu-twice-every-10-years-study#1

So, I guess we could work backwards and if you get it that or more than that, you may have the biomarker; less, probably not.

[WarmPotato]

Its strange that the Flu still hasn't been defeated yet ._.

[Smokin Joe]

Its strange that the Flu still hasn't been defeated yet ._.

This article explains that it is a mite more complex than most might think.

http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/influenza.pdf

For a vaccine to be most effective, it must have the right hemaggluten variety (H1-18) coupled with the right neuraminidase (N1-11). That is a lot of possible combinations, and that's only Influenza A.