Flu and Outbreak

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Flu noun - An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.

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Outbreak and flu are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Outbreak" instead a noun "Flu".

Nearby Word: flue

Outbreak noun - A sudden and usually temporary growth of activity.

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Flu and outbreak are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Flu" instead a noun "Outbreak".

Nearby Word: outbreaking

Desperate, Leslie sabotages her own plans and the drill ends early with the majority of the (simulated) population of the town dead from an outbreak of bird flu.

Source: Throwing the Fight
It all goes to waste however; everyone in Woodcrest mistakenly thought the world was ending, when in fact the "killer fried chicken flu" was just an outbreak of salmonella.

Source: Western Animation / The Boondocks
Usually cursed ones die from a fallen brick or mugger's knife, but when the curse runs out of control, it can result in things like a random gas explosion, sudden outbreak of mutated flu or an unprovoked nuclear attack.

Source: Person of Mass Destruction

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