What does Flu mean?
Definitions for Flu
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Princeton's WordNet
influenza, flu, grippenoun
an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
Wiktionary
flunoun
Influenza.
flunoun
Common cold.
Etymology: A shortening of influenza.
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flu
The flu, or influenza, is a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory tract that primarily affects the nose, throat, and lungs. It typically presents with sudden onset of symptoms like fever, chills, muscle aches, headache, fatigue, sore throat, and cough. The illness can range from mild to severe, potentially causing complications such as pneumonia, heart problems, or death in people with weakened immune systems or other underlying conditions. It spreads primarily through respiratory droplets from coughing or sneezing, or by touching a surface contaminated by the virus and then touching the mouth or nose.
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Rank popularity for the word 'Flu' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4168
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Flu in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Flu in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Flu in a Sentence
In the last few months, 30 million Americans have been infected with a virus, about 300 to 500 thousand of them so severe they had to be hospitalized, and about 30,000 of them died. It's the influenza virus. We are so culturally numb to' just the flu' that we don't take it seriously despite the numbers. And in contrast, the coronavirus has killed about 3,300 in roughly the same time.
Geisinger is making it mandatory for all employees to receive the flu vaccine this year, by taking this step, we hope to convey to our neighbors the importance of the flu vaccine for everyone.
When I was hearing the amount of people that died with the flu, I was shocked to hear it, over the last, long period of time when people have the flu, you have an average of 36,000 people dying. I've never heard those numbers, I would've been shocked. I would have said,' Does anybody die of the flu ?' I didn't know people died from the flu.
If we picked a flu vaccine that is effective as the current mRNA vaccines appear to be against Delta, we would be celebrating. They're only slightly less good against Delta than the originally circulating strain, the concern is places in The US that have not seen a lot of Covid and vaccination rates among the high-risk population is low.
This particular pandemic is one where, I don't think nationwide there's been a single fatality under 25. For whatever reason it just doesn't seem to threaten, you know, kids, and we lose in Florida between five and 10 kids a year for the flu. This one, for whatever reason, much more dangerous if you're 65 and plus than the flu, no doubt about that, if you're younger it just hasn't had an impact. So that should factor into how we're viewing this.
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- griepAfrikaans
- أنفلونزا, إنفلونزاArabic
- qripAzerbaijani
- грыпBelarusian
- инфлуе́нца, грипBulgarian
- ইনফ্লুয়েঞ্জাBengali
- ཚད་རིམས།Tibetan Standard
- chřipkaCzech
- influenzaDanish
- GrippeGerman
- γρίπηGreek
- gripoEsperanto
- gripeSpanish
- grippEstonian
- انفلوانزا, آنفلوآنزاPersian
- influenssaFinnish
- grippeFrench
- cnatan mòrScottish Gaelic
- שפעתHebrew
- इनफ़्लुएंज़ाHindi
- influenzaHungarian
- գրիպArmenian
- influenzaIndonesian
- inflúensa, flensaIcelandic
- influenzaItalian
- 流行性感冒, ウイルス性の風邪, 風邪Japanese
- გრიპი, ინფლუენციაGeorgian
- тұмауKazakh
- គ្រុនផ្ដាសាយ, ជំងឺគ្រុនផ្ដាសាយKhmer
- ಇನ್ಫ್ಲುಯೆನ್ಜKannada
- 인플루엔자Korean
- грипп, тумооKyrgyz
- influentiaLatin
- GrippLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ໄຂ້ຫວັດໃຫຍ່Lao
- gripasLithuanian
- gripaLatvian
- грипMacedonian
- ഇൻഫ്ലുവെൻസMalayalam
- ханиад, томууMongolian
- influenzaMalay
- တုတ်ကွေးရောဂါBurmese
- griepDutch
- tahoniigááhNavajo, Navaho
- grypaPolish
- gripePortuguese
- gripăRomanian
- грипп, инфлюэ́нцаRussian
- grip, инфлуенца, influenca, грипSerbo-Croatian
- chrípkaSlovak
- gripaSlovene
- gripAlbanian
- flunsa, influensaSwedish
- இன்ஃபுளுவென்சாTamil
- ఫ్లూTelugu
- гриппTajik
- ไข้หวัดใหญ่Thai
- gripTurkmen
- trangkasoTagalog
- gripTurkish
- гриппTatar
- грипUkrainian
- grippUzbek
- bệnh cúm, cúmVietnamese
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