with all this swine flu talk lately, it made me think about the time i had bird flu when i was 12. it was absolutely awful and i was horribly sick for a week with a week’s recovery period. however, ever since then, i haven’t had the flu, nor a flu shot. every now and again i’ll get a little cold, but nothing severe.
anyone know about flu antibodies/immunity? would me having bird flu while young make me immune, or at least make it hard for me to catch any flu at all?
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No, it’s an entirely different virus. Sorry.
You would likely be immune to the specific strain that you were infected with before and possibly a couple similar strains. But the thing about the flu is it’s a highly mutative virus, changing all the time. It is unlikely that you are completely immune to getting the regular flu or H1N1.