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• The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.From the entry smallpox
• Influenza and suspected influenza are FDA-approved indications for oseltamivir.From the entry indication
• Immunization against influenza is important for all child-care workers.From the entry immunization
• Epidemiologists worry about H2H transmission of avian influenza.From the entry H2H
• Swine influenza is an example of an orthomyxovirus.From the entry orthomyxovirus
• The US National Library of Medicine lists H5N9 as a subtype avian influenza virus.2025 January 27, Edward Helmore, “First outbreak of rare bird flu strain reported at California poultry farm”, in The Guardian, archived…. From the entry avian influenza
• Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42. From the entry everyday
• Great plagues, such as the bubonic plague or smallpox or syphilis or influenza, can happen again.2006, Irwin W. Sherman, chapter 17, in The Power of Plagues, →ISBN. From the entry plague
• The statement that influenza rages in England does not imply that the disease is not rampant elsewhere.1980, “Art Notes”, in Harriet Zinnes, editor, Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry doddard
• During epidemics of influenza uterine hæmorrhage may be a prominent symptom.1919, Samuel J. Cameron, “Menstruation and its disorders”, in A Manual of Gynæcology, 2nd revised edition, London, England: Edward Arnold…. From the entry chronic wasting disease
• The first thing it did was to spawn a whole Pandora's box of DNA viruses—smallpox, influenza and so on.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, pages 396–397. From the entry Pandora's box
• RNA replaces DNA as the genetic material in many viruses (for example, tobacco mosaic, influenza, polio, certain RNA phages).1992, James D. Watson and others, Recombinant DNA, second edition, Scientific American Books, page 64. From the entry tobacco mosaic
• The two known human AIDS viruses are evolving at a rapid rate equivalent to that of influenza viruses, said Dr.1988 June 9, Harold M. Schmeck Jr., “Family Tree of AIDS Viruses Is Viewed as 37 to 80 Years Old”, in The New York Times. From the entry temple
• The GVN is now urging world governments to confront the threat of H5N1 avian influenza by strengthening surveillance efforts and enforcing stricter biosecurity protocols.2025 April 28, Sadie Whitelocks, “Experts issue terrifying warning to America: Prepare for pandemic NOW as new virus spreads to all 50…. From the entry GVN
• What’s more, COVID-19 isn’t the only sickness going around, as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases are prevalent, creating a “tripledemic.”2022 January 5, Janelle Randazza, Kaleb Brown, “Fight against the tripledemic with these KN95 masks for kids”, in USA Today, Money. From the entry tripledemic
• Virus isolation was performed in embryonating chicken egg culture according to the methods described by Woolcock and influenza subtypes determined by genomic sequencing.2015 December 18, “Avian Influenza Ecology in North Atlantic Sea Ducks: Not All Ducks Are Created Equal”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry embryonating
• She displayed alarming influenza on Tuesday morning, and although it was most frightfully inconvenient I packed her off home without a moment's delay.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry influ
• A triple threat of viruses has some health officials warning about a "tridemic" this winter season as influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) surge at once.2022 December 8, “How to protect yourself from a triple-threat of viruses this holiday season”, in CBC News, archived from the original on…. From the entry tridemic
• As one former secretary of state for health in England put it to me, our scientists suffered from a “cognitive bias” towards the milder threat of influenza.2020 April 9, Richard Horton, “Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation”, in The Guardian. From the entry cognitive bias
• NA-specific immunity has been shown to limit the spread of influenza virus, thus reducing disease symptoms and providing cross-protection against heterosubtypic viruses in mouse challenge experiments.2015 August 18, “Expression and Characterization of Recombinant, Tetrameric and Enzymatically Active Influenza Neuraminidase for the Setup…. From the entry heterosubtypic
• Influenza viruses require host cell nuclear functions for at least two critical steps in their multiplication cycle: mRNA splicing and a unique process called cap stealing.1996 August 15, Friedemann Weber et al., “Nucleoprotein viral RNA and mRNA of Thogoto virus: a novel "cap-stealing" mechanism in…. From the entry cap stealing
• Influenza virus polymerase uses a capped primer, derived by "cap-snatching" from host pre-messenger RNA, to transcribe its RNA genome into mRNA and a stuttering mechanism to generate the poly(A) tail.2014 November 19, Stefan Reich et al., “Structural insight into cap-snatching and RNA synthesis by influenza polymerase”, in Nature…. From the entry cap snatching
• Inspectors named the H5N2 strain of avian influenza as the cause for the sudden deaths of poultry on Oct. 21 in Luzhu, Kaohsiung county, the council said in a statement.2008 December 21, Ralph Jennings, “Taiwan confirms bird flu case in poultry”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original…. From the entry Luzhu
• This represents one possible obstacle to the emergence of new pandemic influenza A viruses in humans, namely, the presence of avian–human influenza gene constellations that restrict viral replication in primates.1990, John Treanor, Brian Murphy, “Genes Involved in the Restriction of Replication of Avian Influenza A Viruses in Primates”, in Edouard…. From the entry pandemic

Meaning of influenza

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

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Questions about influenza in a sentence

How do you use influenza in a sentence?

Influenza is used as a noun. For example: “The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.”

What is a short sentence with influenza?

“Epidemiologists worry about H2H transmission of avian influenza.”

What does influenza mean?

Influenza means an acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.