Flu (disambiguation)
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Flu is a vernacular name for influenza.
Flu or FLU may also refer to:
Flu or FLU may also refer to:
Influenza strains
- Human fluHuman fluHuman flu is a term used to refer to influenza cases caused by Orthomyxoviridae that are endemic to human populations . It is an arbitrary categorization scheme, and is not associated with phylogenetics-based taxonomy...
, influenza that affects humans - Avian influenza, influenza endemic to birds
- Swine fluSwine fluSwine influenza, also called pig influenza, swine flu, hog flu and pig flu, is an infection by any one of several types of swine influenza virus. Swine influenza virus or S-OIV is any strain of the influenza family of viruses that is endemic in pigs...
, influenza endemic to pigs - Equine influenza, influenza endemic to horses
- Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, a strain of avian influenza
Other illness
- Influenza-like illnessInfluenza-like illnessInfluenza-like illness , also known as acute respiratory infection and flu-like syndrome, is a medical diagnosis of possible influenza or other illness causing a set of common symptoms, with SARI referring to Severe Acute Respiratory Infection.Symptoms commonly include fever, shivering, chills,...
, any acute illness with flu-like symptoms - Stomach flu, also known as gastroenteritis
- Haemophilus influenzaeHaemophilus influenzaeHaemophilus influenzae, formerly called Pfeiffer's bacillus or Bacillus influenzae, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium first described in 1892 by Richard Pfeiffer during an influenza pandemic. A member of the Pasteurellaceae family, it is generally aerobic, but can grow as a facultative anaerobe. H...
, or H. flu, a bacterial infection which can cause respiratory infections and sepsis - Man fluMan fluMan flu is a pejorative term that refers to the idea many men, when they have a cold, exaggerate and claim they have the flu — the implication being that women do not do so...
, a pejorative term - the idea that men exaggerate cold symptoms
Other
- Flushing AirportFlushing AirportFlushing Airport is a decommissioned airfield in northern Queens in New York City. It is located in the neighborhood of College Point, near Flushing. The airfield was in operation from 1927 to 1984. It was originally called Speed's Airport and was one of the busiest airports in New York City before...
's IATA code - FLU (plant gene), mutation that causes plants to glow red in presence of blue light
- The Flu (Parks and Recreation), an episode of the NBCNBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
comedy series Parks and RecreationParks and RecreationParks and Recreation is an American comedy television series on NBC that focuses on Leslie Knope , a mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of Pawnee, a fictional town in Indiana. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, the series debuted on April 9, 2009; it has run for three seasons and... - Flu Press, an imprint of VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content