Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Influenza.
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- noun
Influenza . - noun informal
Common cold .
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- noun an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
Etymologies
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Examples
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I don't know about projected deaths of swine flu, but * regular flu* kills about 36,000 people yearly just in the US. 6000 people killed by swine flu so far * world wide* ...
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Q: What to Michaelangelo and Kurt Cobain have in common? man the flu is now linking to the vaccine n its invisible so we CAN'T let the needle in your arms and yet the swindle flu is from mexico.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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This could be due to a misguided belief that the swine flu jab will protect against winter flu**.
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This could be due to a misguided belief that the swine flu jab will protect against winter flu**.
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Wondering what the state of the flu is there, ie, restaurants, stores open/closed?, people out on the streets, beaches, life as usual, etc.
Flu Status in PV 2009
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Wondering what the state of the flu is there, ie, restaurants, stores open/closed?, people out on the streets, beaches, life as usual, etc.
Flu Status in PV 2009
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Wondering what the state of the flu is there, ie, restaurants, stores open/closed?, people out on the streets, beaches, life as usual, etc.
Flu Status in PV 2009
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Modern medicine has made such huge strides against infectious diseases, yesterday's great killers, that, at least for those of us living today in the developed world, death from typhus, smallpox, infantile diarrhea, or a bad bout of the flu is a fairly remote probability, far removed from the radar screens of our daily concerns.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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But the fourth week, she was always sick with what she called the flu.
The Cure for Modern Life Lisa Tucker 2008
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In the US, someone complained on Twitter that a member of the Trump administration had referred to COVID-19 as ‘Kung flu’, and Trump himself has publicly called it ‘the Chinese virus’.
Mandemic View all posts by debuk 2020
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