“A cold or flu may also spread to the lower respiratory tract to cause a cough.”
“Imagine a needleless syringe bigger than the one used to give you a flu shot.”
“When a flu virus enters your nose, it latches onto the first thing it finds with a neuraminic acid on it, mucus.”
influenza
(medicine) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.
“Under such a situation, physicians will want to only prescribe such therapies to patients infected with the lethal virus, as opposed to the seasonal influenzas.”
“You won't just read me complaining about morning sickness, stomach flus, truncated naps, and poopy diaper emergencies.”
“It's as if Hollywood were experiencing some unusual fabric shortage, and I wouldn't be surprised if a legion of actresses have colds or flus by morning after.”
“Known properties: Traditionnally used in Western Herbalism for colds, flus and fevers because of its diaphoretic or sweat-inducing properties.”