H1N1?

I felt fine on Tuesday.

On Wednesday I woke with a sniffle, felt progressively worse through the day, and was running a fever by nightfall. For the next three days, between congestion, fever and sinus headaches, I felt lobotomized. The fever finally broke on Sunday and today, Monday, I'm back to normal. I don't even have much of a cough.

Of course, the question on my mind as I suffered on the couch was, what strain of flu do I have? I got the seasonal flu shot a couple of weeks ago, so it would be a little surprising to get hit so hard with one of those strains. I'll never know for sure, but a little research today leads me to believe that I probably had H1N1.

The CDC stats (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/) are amazing: "During week 43, seasonal influenza A (H1), A (H3), and B viruses co-circulated at low levels with 2009 influenza A (H1N1) viruses. Over 99% of all subtyped influenza A viruses reported to CDC this week were 2009 influenza A (H1N1) viruses."