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. Christina Johns:

   It is difficult to tell the difference without a test. There are some trends. Typically for influenza, the clinical hallmark is high fever, and that occurs less so in the common cold and is not always a feature of Covid-19 infection.

2. Paul Offit:

   The flu vaccine will prevent influenza virus and the influenza virus only, certainly we see a lot of mixed respiratory virus infections in our hospital. We'll see often two viruses that are infecting at the same time. ... That makes it all the more important that you get your flu vaccine.

3. Professor Deborah Fuller:

   In our paper, we replicated experimentally in monkeys a situation that [was] similar to the 2009 influenza pandemic, where a new strain of influenza unexpectedly emerged and current vaccines offered little or no protection, we vaccinated the monkeys with the same antigens included in the inactivated vaccine that year, but then also added, via our DNA vaccine, the genetic code for conserved influenza antigens. When we challenged the monkeys with the 2009 pandemic strain of influenza, we saw significant protection in the group that got the vaccine. They experienced only a transient low infection that was quickly cleared, when compared to the group that didn’t get the vaccine.

4. Arnon Wiznitzer:

   This is the first mother to be diagnosed with influenza and corona in Beilinson. We treated her with a drug combination that targets both corona and flu, we are seeing more and more morbidity of influenza among the maternity population, along with cases of corona that mainly occur in women not vaccinated against corona and influenza.

5. Mary Lou Manning:

   The scientific evidence is clear that the routine annual influenza vaccination of health care providers can reduce influenza-related illness and its potentially serious consequences among the providers and their patients, there is also evidence to suggest that when hospital workers get vaccinated, community flu rates decline.