Yeah, it would – my experience of my place in London is that everyone gets it when it goes around. Let’s say, 30 percent get it though – that’s still a dead person every other year or so.
If even 30% of your staff are getting influenza every year there is something very wrong with your organisation, and it must be properly affecting your business productivity. Real flu, not a bad cold, is a proper debilitating condition which will stop you going to work for 2 weeks, and probably still leave you a bit unproductive on week 3 – thats assuming of course you don’t get any really bad side effects!
When was the last time you had a colleague dying of the flu? Never here – probably because the demographics at work eg age – are not right for dying from the flu. This appears to be killing people who are fit and well though.
Its not quite as rare as you think. One of the reasons people don’t die of flu is we vaccinate the old, the young, healthcare workers and the vulnerable. That not only stops them being as likely to get sick but helps to reduce its propagation in the rest of the nation. Another is that we have mostly been exposed to some sort of flu virus at some point in our lives so have a degree of natural immunity. Despite that, some normally fit and healthy people will contract flu, will get particularly sick and some will die. Technically the might not die from flu, but say from pneumonia or septicaemia as a secondary infection.
