Virulent flu in New Zealand

So I got sick last week and went to the doctors. On my second visit I was seen by nurse who told me that there is a particularly nasty flu (strain B) going around the Canterbury area (South Island, New Zealand). She told me it is resistant to the flu jab and in about half the cases it turns to bronchitis after about a week so they are not handing out antibiotics until then.

    Here in the USA I am happily already awaiting the arrival of the Brisbane type B strain as it was not included in the trivalent vaccine, and the hospital I work for mandates shots, then is too cheap to pay for the quadvalent vaccine where Brisbane B is included.   Australia got creamed by Brisbane B. Your vaccine failure was probably not due to getting it in September (though that is always unwise, you loose a third of the antibodies after four months, except if you are over 65, you loose nearly all after 90 days.)  The problem is that the virus mutates or switches too fast for the obsolete 1940's technology, EGGS, still used for most flu vaccines.       Your type B you got was probably never included.