Synonyms for flu
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WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. flunoun

   Influenza.

   Synonyms:
   grip, grippe

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. influenza, flu, grippenoun

   an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease

   Synonyms:
   influenza, grippe

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1. • Contagious Disease
   • Respiratory Disease

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1. List of paraphrases for "flu":

   influenza, flus, ulf, avian, influence

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flu

   Synonyms:
   Influenza, see there
   

2. flu

   Synonyms:
   influenza

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1. Richard Isaacson:

   Regular use of the flu vaccine, especially starting at an early age, may help prevent viral infections that could cause cascading effects on the immune system and inflammatory pathways. These viral infections may trigger Alzheimers related cognitive decline.

2. Allison Arwady:

   I understand that people are scared, i understand that you're looking at those numbers and seeing that they're high, but I want to just reassure you that, especially if you're vaccinated, your child is vaccinated, this is behaving really like the flu and we don't close school districts, especially for extended periods of time, for the flu.

3. President Donald Trump:

   If you go back to the swine flu, it was nothing like this, they didn't do testing like this. And actually they lost approximately 14,000 people and they didn't do the testing. They started thinking about testing when it was far too late.

4. Tara Vijayan:

   Our flu rates were unexpectedly high in the late fall and it does seem to be leveling off, but I would absolutely be concerned about another rise in cases this winter, it is absolutely not too late to get the flu shot.

5. Ben Cowling:

   I think it’s quite rational to make contingency plans. I wouldn’t expect a lockdown to be needed for flu, but presumably there are different response levels.