[xlm1717]

People die from flu every year. Flu can be bad at any time. I myself had a bad flu back in January, with fever, chills, and loss of appetite for a few days, and a cough that lingered for weeks. I'm just glad I got it in January and not in March. At the worst of the flu I just kept hoping I wouldn't develop pneumonia, because pneumonia is actually deadly. I would've been worried out of my mind if I had those symptoms in March or later.

[jansan]

Pneumonia that comes with flu is usually a bacterial superinfection that can be treated quite well with antibiotics. If you have the flu, your temperature goes down after two or three days, but then raises again, you probably have a bacterial superinfection and should consult a doctor.

These bacterial superinfections also caused most of the deaths from the Spanish Flu. At that time antibiotics did not exist.