TY - JOUR T1 - Influenza JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 898 LP - 898 VL - 56 IS - 532 AU - Saul Miller Y1 - 2006/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/56/532/898.abstract N2 - It is autumn. It has rained, torrentially. My grandmother though, is as tough as they come. Sitting, aged 92, in the remains of her once pristine sitting room, she merely points out that, before the days of central heating, floods were even more of a problem. It could take weeks before it was possible to light a fire and you just had to struggle on till then without any heating at all. No, she won't grumble and she won't move out. She has known worse than this.‘It'll all get sorted eventually’, she says.She even remembers the flu epidemic of 1919. Bodies being loaded onto the undertaker's cart on a daily basis. She was the only one in the house who didn't catch the bug. She has always been tough.Nowadays she has made a few concessions to … ER -