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In reply to the discussion: Who here has had the flu this season? [View all]Hekate
(90,910 posts)...for the coming season.
As to age, it depends on you-- you can get the shot at any age. I wasn't all that old the year my luck ran out and I got flu that weakend me enough that I then got pneumonia. After I recovered my doc had me take a pneumonia shot, and in subsequent years I made sure to get my flu vax. Sometimes I still get something during the season -- but mostly I don't. By this time I am in the age range of folks who really should avoid getting flu if at all possible.
Over the years I've known plenty of folks who get the flu, and then a secondary infection that settles in their chest so they are hacking up crud for the next two months and taking antibiotics. Ugh. We do have a couple of DUers who seem to have cast-iron immune systems, but most people eventually are not that hardy.