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superflu

n. Any strain of flu that spreads unusually quickly, is unusually virulent or is unusually unresponsive to treatment.

Usage examples of "superflu".

In the United States the second epidemic took about 16 percent of the superflu survivors.

You can call it Tube Neck or superflu -or Captain Trips, but it all means the same thing.

But most of them had crept into houses and locked the doors, already suffering with superflu or only terror of it as daylight left this flat green land.

He told himself she'd probably been taking them long before the superflu had happened.

He had accepted the superflu epidemic with equanimity, he said, because at last he would be able to retire and paint full time, as he had always wanted to do.

Less likely but still possible, the superflu may have had some sterility effect on those of us that are left.

During the actual superflu epidemic, he had gone through extreme withdrawal as all the pushers and users he knew died or fled.

Vaguely, Larry remembered the spell of rain that had occurred the afternoon he had found his mother dying, just before the superflu had hit New York like a highballing freight train.

Her thirty-two grandchildren had produced ninety-one great-grandchildren that she knew of, and at the time of the superflu, she had had three great-great grandchildren.

If there are any Jesuit survivors of the superflu, they must be going absolutely bananas.

To see if the Free Zone will approve a Burial Committee of at least twenty persons initially to decently inter those who died of the superflu epidemic in Boulder.

By the time of the superflu epidemic he was able to type better than a hundred words a minute, and he was at last able to keep up with his racing thoughts and snare them all.

The dark man is as real as the superflu itself, as real as the atomic bombs that still sit somewhere in their leadlined closets.

Angie Hirschfield drew the boy away with a secret fear in her heart, feeling that something bad, something perhaps as evil as the superflu itself, was in the making.

Tom told him he had gotten the pan from an orange truck with a big a on it-someone who had been fleeing the superflu with all their worldly possessions, Stu guessed.