Both Uses
influenza
in
Wringer, by Jerry Spinelli
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- "My mother's afraid I'll catch the flu," he blurted and ran from the room before she could stop him.†
p. 142.8 *the flu = influenza -- a highly contagious respiratory disease
- She says I'm getting the flu.†
p. 143.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(influenza) highly contagious respiratory disease commonly called the flu
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)