There are many positive influenza rapid antigen test patients being seen in Sumter county. If your doctor does an influenza test the important thing to know is that a positive test is very accurate, you have influenza, however, the diagnositic value of a negative influenza test is poor. Depending on the test manufacturer, and lab technician, a person with influenza is almost as likely to have a negative test as a positive one. But to answer the OP question, yes I am personally familiar with a large number of patients who are testing positive for influenza. Get your flu shot. It is completely impossible that it can give you flu. By the way, nearly a quarter of adults who are actively shedding influenza virus develop no clinical illness
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21844028 and many additional patients have only mild illness. Do not assume that because you have never been bedridden with severe influenza that you have never had it. Like other infectious diseases influenza has a wide range of clinical presentation and that you have only had mild symptoms in the past is no guarantee that the next time will be similar. Neither is getting a vaccine a guarantee that you won't be seriously ill, but it lowers the risk. Vaccinating also improves the herd immunity making you less likely to acquire then spread the virus to your contacts, neighbors, and family