Synonyms for influenza
ˌɪn fluˈɛn zəin·fluen·za

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1. influenzanoun

   Synonyms:
   grippe, flu, grip

2. influenzanoun

   An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.

   Synonyms:
   grippe, flu, grip

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1. influenza, flu, grippenoun

   an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease

   Synonyms:
   flu, grippe

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1. • Contagious Disease
   • Respiratory Disease

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1. List of paraphrases for "influenza":

   flu, avian, influence, anti-influenza, h1n1, grippe, 'influenza, flu-like, ili

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1. Peter Horby:

   This was included in the Recovery Trial because it's a readily available, cheap and well understood drug, and because there have been reports in the past of benefit in viral respiratory infections, but it's been an area of huge controversy, even at the time of SARS1 in 2003, steroids were used, but at very different doses. Some of the studies showed a harm from steroids in SARS, some said there's possible benefits. A meta-analysis in 29 different studies in SARS was inconclusive. There's also been inconclusive results on MERS coronavirus and also influenza.

2. William Schaffner:

   Our crystal balls are a little cloudy at this point this year, but the H3N2 virus should be the dominant strain this year, while it tends to produce more influenza symptoms, and that's the bad news, the good news is now the vaccine has been modified and it does include H3N2 strain, so it ought to be more on target with the dominant strain of the virus this year.

3. Matthew Downham:

   Given that the prevalence of globally circulating flu is incredibly low right now, the WHO may not have the thousands of influenza positive samples it usually relies on to make strain selection decisions, the WHO may have to marginally postpone its strain selection recommendation to March for one or more strains. This, in turn, may pose extra challenges to manufacturers.

4. Rasmus Nielsen:

   We don't have enough data to say for certain what is the mechanism for increased mortality but this effect on infectious diseases, particularly influenza, is a good candidate.

5. Lynnette Brammer:

   There are predominantly influenza A viruses out there, there are a few influenza Bs.