I don't know why people always say, "Just the flu" like it's no big deal. The flu, just about any flu can be very dangerous. It has killed lots of people. (sure the statistics may not make it the highest thing on the list) So what. It is not a minor thing to get the flu and not every immune system, even a good one can always lick it. Aging people or very young are more susceptible. Or people already sick with something else.
I have a good immune system. I am one of those pepole who never get sick. I don't even get colds very often. Even as a kid, I only got sick once in a great while. I've been exposed to all kinds of things and seem to resist them. As an adult, I did get the influenza type A and was VERY ill. I was so sick, I almost died. Very high fever and VERY delirious. And I almost bit the dust with a bacterial pneumonia. Oh... and that was when I lived in a brand new 4000 sq ft house in Washington state, U.S. (not a 3rd world country) with running water and even a working septic system. Imagine that
Flu has wiped out fairly large numbers of people and they weren't all from unsanitary countries with sewage infested drinking water, no soap and no immune systems.
I guess it's a crap shoot to a degree whether someone will be over taken by it or not. It takes an extraordinary immune system to fight off some diseases in certain situations. And even good immune systems can't always win....obviously or hardly anyone would get sick. And a fair number of people do get sick. If immune systems were everything they're cracked up to be by some people, no one would get sick. No one would get cancer or aids or the flu or the common cold.
I am so sorry for those people with this flu going around if it's so bad that it's killing people. I'm sure statistically it isn't as big as a lot of other things. And I believe it that the media can over play things a great deal of the time. But for those 6000 people or whatever the number is, that's no small matter.