How to Use influenza in a Sentence

influenza

noun
  • Still, the country saw high rates of both Covid and influenza in the first half of this year.
    Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2022
  • As bad as this is, the influenza virus is way worse right now.
    Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Here’s a look at the H1N1 influenza virus, also known as swine flu.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 6 June 2021
  • At least three members of the House died of influenza or what was believed to be.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 12 May 2020
  • In World War I, nearly as many men died of influenza as died in the trenches.
    Dave Philipps, chicagotribune.com, 17 Nov. 2020
  • But all that close contact raises a concern this year: the spread of the influenza virus.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Flu shots do the same thing with dead influenza viruses.
    John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Boon had planned to devote his life’s work to influenza.
    Megan Molteni, WIRED, 8 July 2019
  • The way influenza vaccines are made is a study in contrast.
    New York Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The strain that is emerging now is an H1N1 type of influenza A, the one that normally kicks off the season.
    Michelle Cortez, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Since the turn of the 20th century, influenza A has caused four pandemics.
    Hanna D. Paton, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Even more startling, is that up to 3,300 people have lost their lives due to influenza.
    Leah Groth, Health.com, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The killing of George Floyd is not the hawking of government bonds, and the coronavirus is not influenza.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
  • The influenza virus has been raising alarm since it was detected in a Texas cow back in March.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Her doctors have told her that the influenza has damaged her heart.
    Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Despite the name, influenza viruses do not cause the stomach flu.
    Maxine Lipner, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • First, the mortality rate was low, about a third that of most influenza strains.
    Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Human transmission of influenza A virus is very rare, the CDC said.
    Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024
  • This flu season has been marked by the dominance of Type B influenza.
    Dana Branham, Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2020
  • In the case of influenza, there’s the onset of cool weather, a factor that may affect the coronavirus, too.
    John Lauerman, Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2020
  • Scientists have used sewage to track surges of viruses such as RSV and influenza.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Tamiflu has been stored in the SNS and in state stockpiles in case of an influenza pandemic.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Their data show that H5N1 is the dominant form of influenza A swirling in these Texas towns’ wastewater.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • Bird influenza cases have risen in number across the U.S. in recent months.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
  • American women won the right to vote in the wake of the devastation of World War I and the influenza pandemic of 1918.
    Phillip Morris, National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2020
  • As of last week, 98 children have died from influenza, the CDC reported.
    Katie Camero, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Canine influenza, commonly known as dog flu, is on the rise in some areas of the United States.
    Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
  • That’s when the flu season began in Australia, and the severity of influenza there can foreshadow what’s in store for the US.
    Ike Swetlitz, Bloomberg.com, 11 Jan. 2023
  • There's a vote scheduled over thimerosal, a preservative used in influenza vaccines.
    Pien Huang, NPR, 25 June 2025
  • By 2001 thimerosal had been taken out of all vaccines except some influenza vaccines in multidose vials.
    Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 25 June 2025

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