"Viperdoc" writes:

If you had any intestinal symptoms, by definition you did not have the flu,
which is characterized primarily by fever and upper respiratory symptoms.

Terminology drift in progress! When I was a kid, if it was
respiratory symptoms, it was a "cold". If there were intestinal
symptoms, it was the "flu".
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