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Not quite, new variants develop and new to adult variants will appear every few years.

It's less able to spread than COVID so adults get the flu about every 5 years[0].

I'm sure you've heard of Spanish flu by now, but may not have heard of Encephalitis Lethargica [1] that followed it.

Luckily nothing like that has happened again and CFS is tame in comparison. But the flu still has surprises in store for us.

[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica




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