noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cold/cough/flu remedy
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Most cold remedies have little effect.
a doctor diagnoses flu/depression etc (= says what illness someone has )
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The doctor diagnosed malaria.
a flu bug
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We’ve all had a horrible flu bug.
avian flu
bird flu
chicken flu
the AIDS/flu/polio etc virus
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They are trying to stop the spread of the flu virus.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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Nigel was really unwell at the last minute with a bad bout of flu , but decided not to cancel.
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I got a real bad flu .
cold
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For example, the percentage reporting that they had had a cold or flu in the previous month showed little change with age.
gastric
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I think I've got gastric flu .
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Withdrawal from heroin, usually described in lurid nightmare language, is actually like a severe attack of gastric flu .
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Perhaps it was just gastric flu .
mild
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The symptoms of toxoplasmosis for healthy adults may be like mild flu , but often there are no symptoms.
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Most will never know for sure if what they have is mild flu or a bad cold.
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It will make the Black Death look like a mild dose of flu .
■ NOUN
bug
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United have just about shaken off the flu bug and are back to more or less full strength.
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Unfortunately, although a good time was had by all, a number of the team picked up a strange flu bug .
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Unfortunately a flu bug attacked most of the crew during this week which clouded our impressions of Shetland.
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Only replacement back Kenny Logan was an absentee, confined to bed suffering from the 24-hour flu bug .
epidemic
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Fortunately, full-blown flu epidemics are relatively rare.
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Jane died in the flu epidemic in 1916.
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Ah, that was the time we had a spring flu epidemic .
vaccine
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Who can give me a flu vaccination Your doctor will normally be able to vaccinate you with a flu vaccine .
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I know the flu vaccine is made new each year.
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If you are a person at greater risk from flu , consider having a flu vaccine this autumn.
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To be effective, flu vaccine must be given every year.
virus
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In Wiltshire, a doctor has died from the flu virus .
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One of the best natural examples of this is the ability of the flu virus to keep cropping up in new forms.
■ VERB
catch
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It wasn't something you caught , like flu or Aids.
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No need for the market to catch the flu .
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If you are one of those patients who are at greater risk from flu , you should try to avoid catching it.
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After displaying her cleavage at the Grammys last week, she's caught the flu .
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She'd had a hectic year, she was really too tired, and now she'd caught the flu .
get
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Winger, Jerry Perrins is back in the team, but there's a doubt over Derek Morgan who's got flu .
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He had a knee injury, sprained his ankle twice, got the flu twice.
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Who can help if I do get flu ?
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Some people who get the shot do get flu anyway, he said, but gene rally they get much milder cases.
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I think I've got gastric flu .
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I got a real bad flu .
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He'd only just got right from flu .
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Of course, high-risk patients should get flu shots.
suffer
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Campbell, however, was suffering from flu yesterday and a decision on his fitness will not be made until today.
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Derek Turnbull arrived at Murrayfield, but was sent home suffering from flu .
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She told Relate officials that she was suffering from flu and had lost her voice.
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Team news: Les Robinson has been suffering from flu but should be fit.
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Only replacement back Kenny Logan was an absentee, confined to bed suffering from the 24-hour flu bug.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bout of depression/flu/sickness etc
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Occasionally we all suffer from influenza or a bout of sickness, which naturally results in a drop in weight.
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Pablo Fernandez was suddenly stricken by a bout of flu.
gastric flu
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I think I've got gastric flu.
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Perhaps it was just gastric flu.
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Withdrawal from heroin, usually described in lurid nightmare language, is actually like a severe attack of gastric flu.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Flu shots are recommended for people 55 and older.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Campbell, however, was suffering from flu yesterday and a decision on his fitness will not be made until today.
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It is unknown how m any of those pneumonia cases were preceded by flu .
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Only replacement back Kenny Logan was an absentee, confined to bed suffering from the 24-hour flu bug.
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Pace of flu attack hits 14-year high.
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The economy had not just a passing cold but a bad case of the flu .
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The guard said he has played a little sluggish because of the flu and an ankle sprain he suffered two weeks ago.
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When Cottingham was 16, she got what she thought was the flu .