OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8791

influenza

/ˌɪn.fluˈɛn.zə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gripa • gripe • influenza
An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.
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 -…
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