to have a bad dose of flu

  • 1dose — 1 noun (C) 1 a measured amount of a medicine (+ of): a dose of antibiotics 2 an amount of something unpleasant that you experience at one time (+ of): Workers were exposed to a large dose of radiation. | a bad dose of flu | in small doses (=for a …

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  • 2flu — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ mild ▪ bad ▪ gastric (BrE), stomach (AmE) ▪ avian, bird ▪ …

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  • 3dose — I UK [dəʊs] / US [doʊs] noun [countable] Word forms dose : singular dose plural doses ** 1) medical an amount of a drug that has been measured so that you can take it dose of: If you are in pain, increase the dose of painkillers. a small/low dose …

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  • 42009 flu pandemic in the United Kingdom — Main article: 2009 flu pandemic Further information: 2009 flu pandemic by country 2009 swine flu pandemic in the UK Disease Swine flu Virus strain H1N1 Arrival date 27 April 2009[1] Origin …

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  • 5Influenza pandemic — Note: For information about the content, tone and sourcing of this article, please see the tags at the bottom of this page. An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large… …

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  • 6Transmission and infection of H5N1 — from infected avian sources to humans is a concern due to the global spread of H5N1 that constitutes a pandemic threat.Infected birds pass on H5N1 through their saliva, nasal secretions, and feces. Other birds may pick up the virus through direct …

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  • 7Human mortality from H5N1 — or the human fatality ratio from H5N1 or the case fatality rate of H5N1 refer to the ratio of the number of confirmed human deaths resulting from confirmed cases of transmission and infection of H5N1 to the number of those confirmed cases. For… …

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  • 8Health and Disease — ▪ 2009 Introduction Food and Drug Safety.       In 2008 the contamination of infant formula and related dairy products with melamine in China led to widespread health problems in children, including urinary problems and possible renal tube… …

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  • 9List of fictional diseases — This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. This article is a list of fictional diseases nonexistent, named medical conditions… …

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  • 10Homeopathy — Homeopathy: coined in German from Greek hómoios ὅμοιος like + páthos πάθος suffering Oxford English Dictionary …

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