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Swine Flu

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Noun

1. swine flu, swine influenza

an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Swine Flu

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noun
1. veterinary science
a respiratory disease of pigs caused by a swine influenza virus, characterized by influenza-like symptoms such as chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness and general discomfort
2. medicine
the strain of this disease that can be passed to humans; it is occasionally fatal, esp in people who have a pre-existing medical condition
The 2009 flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new strain of H1N1 influenza virus, often referred to colloquially as 'swine flu'.

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Swine Flu

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a virulent, highly contagious influenza infecting people and swine

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Swine Flu

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n.
A highly contagious form of human influenza caused by a filterable virus identical or related to a virus formerly isolated from infected swine.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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