And actually, about a year or so ago, there was this promulgation of the idea of Google Flu Trends, with respect to the flu, where by looking at people's searching behavior today, we could know where the flu what the status of the epidemic was today, what's the prevalence of the epidemic today.

So this would be a technique whereby we could get more than a month and a half warning about a flu epidemic in a particular population.

He came down with the flu.

Think of cancer, of bird flu, swine flu, SARS.

I've got a touch of the flu.

Do they have a common cold?

I think you've got the flu.

I caught the flu.

What you have is a common cold, not the flu.

It's probably the flu.

And we have a terrible chlamydia epidemic terrible chlamydia epidemic which sticks around for many years.

We know from influenza that a new epidemic can suddenly appear just as an older one is fading, if a new form of the virus appears, or if some environmental factor increases the contagion rate.

And that most people who die of regular flu which in regular flu years is about 360,000 people worldwide, most of them senior citizens and they die not of the flu but because the flu gives an assault to their immune system.

This is the epidemic in Mozambique. This is an epidemic in northern Tanzania.

As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar.

We took 1,300 randomly selected undergraduates, we had them nominate their friends, and we followed both the random students and their friends daily in time to see whether or not they had the flu epidemic.

I have the flu and I'm tired.

She is down with influenza.

Out of consideration to the pig farming industry the name 'pig influenza' has been changed into 'influenza A(H1N1)'.

Well, you could develop flu like symptoms.

This is not your normal garden variety flu.

Tom's mom caught the flu.

And we've looked at everything more AIDS cases, flu, etc.

The red dots are going to be cases of the flu, and the yellow dots are going to be friends of the people with the flu.

I was in bed with the flu.

He's in bed with the flu.

Tom is in bed with the flu.

Tom is down with the flu.

When the government banned the Hajj completely one year in the midst of a swine flu epidemic, it set up a series of national pilgrimages to local shrines, some of which had only limited connection to Islam.

There was a cholera epidemic in Haiti.

Rats carry the plague.

I asked them these are all fluologists and specialists in influenza and I asked them the questions you'd like to ask them.

An epidemic affected 60,000 of the Indigenous.

I often catch cold in winter.

The flu prevented him from playing golf.

I've had the flu since Monday.

Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu

It took me more than one month to get over my cold.

Gregory Petsko on the coming neurological epidemic

The HIV epidemic peaked.

Seth Berkley HIV and flu the vaccine strategy

It was before the avian flu had reached Europe.

Last week my mother came down with the flu.

My mother caught the flu last week.

Scores of people died in the epidemic.