1)Influenza is Italian for "influence", Latin: influentia. It used to be thought that the disease was caused by a bad influence from the heavens.
2)Derived from the Italian "Bad air."
Influenza is commonly known as the flu.
Influenza is an old Italian word. It means, "Influence". It is just a plain old word, but was and is used to mean the disease that we call the "Flu". It might have come from "under the influence" of germs.
They are the same thing. Influenza is the full name of the viral infection and flu is a shortening of the word influenza.
The waitress has spread the vicious virus named influenza.
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'Flu' is just the abbreviation of 'Influenza'.In - 'Flu' - enza
This is the correct word that is usually abbreviated as "flu." Here are some sentences.The influenza epidemic left many dead and thousands weakened.I have had my influenza vaccine.She caught influenza and was sick for a whole week.
Flu stands for influenza. As you can tell, it's just a shortened version of the word.
Yes, it is.
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