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Are you a 20-40 year old in the US right now? Did ya get a flu shot? No? Go get one. Right the fuck now.

We have had multiple otherwise healthy young adults hospitalized with severe influenza A infections. A few have died of complications. These were people who had zero risk factors. Get your flu shots folks!

@abbynormative we are not if they have typable flu. If we have a mystery virus, yes.

@mcnado

I had the impression that H5N1 bird flu was a specific form of Flu A?

@abbynormative

@Kathmandu @abbynormative it is, but on most of our tests in hospitals when they try to figure out which flu A someone has it isn’t a match — a so called non-typeable. I actually went down that road tonight with a patient. That said, not all labs type these out, so we could be missing many of them in theory.

@mcnado

That is clearer, thank you for explaining.

@abbynormative