Both Uses of
influenza
in
A Thousand Acres
- My father was born when Edith was eighteen, and after him two girls, Martha and Louise, who died in the flu epidemic of 1917.†
p. 132.9 *the flu = influenza -- a highly contagious respiratory disease
- WHAT IT FELT LIKE WAS THE FLU, SO MUCH so that I went upstairs and took my temperature.†
p. 246.0
Definition:
highly contagious respiratory disease commonly called the flu