flu epidemic

collocation in English

meaningsoffluandepidemic

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withepidemic.
flu
noun[U]
uk
/fluː/us
/fluː/
a common infectious illness that causes fever ...
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epidemic
adjective
uk
/ˌep.ɪˈdem.ɪk/us
/ˌep.əˈdem.ɪk/
happening a lot and affecting ...
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(Definition offluandepidemicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The fear of a global avianfluepidemicis real.
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I have the impression that the situation with scanners is very similar to the situation we had during the swinefluepidemic.
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The hard fact is that the nation's accident and emergency departments cannot cope with afluepidemicin the middle of winter.
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Had afluepidemicoccurred, the picture would have been very much worse.
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Thefluepidemicearly in the last century has been mentioned to us in relation to the cases that we have in mind.
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There has been afluepidemic, at least in my part of the country.
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Is it not important that we consider the experience of other countries which are suffering from the samefluepidemic?
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It is difficult to leave intensive care beds open on the off chance that afluepidemicmay occur.
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I pointed out that these were elderly people, we were in the middle of winter and there was afluepidemicon.
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What will be the impact on the accident and emergency department if we get afluepidemicin a bad winter?
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They make the point in particular in this year when there has been afluepidemic.
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I spent part of my millennium break helping to treat thefluepidemicand vaccinate those at risk.
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I am not going to buy all the business about thefluepidemicbecause then we would get into party politics.
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We, as general practitioners, have no doubt that we did not see afluepidemicthis winter and this is borne out by the statistics.
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In the middle of the winterfluepidemic, did we hear calls for more money?
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We have no medical or scientific evidence that afluepidemicis likely this winter.
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They may, like afluepidemic, spread much more widely.
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How many extra beds does he estimate will be needed in the coming months if there is a properfluepidemic?
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This is not, however, an exceptional winter and there is not an exceptionalfluepidemic, as has been acknowledged.
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We saw that in classic form with this year'sfluepidemic.
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