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Influenza

//ˌɪn.fluˈɛn.zə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics. countable, uncountable

    "In early 1919 the Board also issued a film, Dr Wise on Influenza, in which a character called 'Brown' spreads the disease by enacting poor behaviours. This did address transport - by boarding a crowded omnibus, "Brown may be scattering germs throughout the carriage and giving influenza to a number of people"."

  2. 2
    an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease wordnet

Etymology

From Italian influenza (“influence”), from Latin influentia. Doublet of influence.

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