Sentence examples for a devastating flu from inspiring English sources

Thirteen-year-old Cole has lost both his parents, and a good deal of his memory, to a devastating flu pandemic that has decimated communities and given rise to predictions of imminent rapture among the devout.

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931 in the shadow of the first world war, the Wall Street Crash and a devastating flu virus that had claimed millions of lives.

The country is now in the longest period of declining life expectancy since 1918, when World War I and a devastating flu pandemic drove life expectancy to 39 years old, according to ABC News.

That colors the film's antagonists -- Gary Oldman's Dreyfus, a leader of a human colony left alive following a devastating simian flu that wiped out most of the population, and Toby Kebbell's Koba, an ape previously tortured by human beings while in captivity -- in shades of grey recognizable to those who watch television shows such as "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad".

Pandemics, he said, can start out mild, and over the course of several months become a severe illness, as was the case during the devastating flu pandemic of 1918.

1918 "Spanish flu" The most devastating flu pandemic in recent history was caused by a strain of H1N1 influenza that killed 20 million to 50 million people worldwide.

She had to drop out of high school to help her family during the devastating flu epidemic of 1918.

Senior medical officer Dr Nicola Steedman said every year she sees examples of how devastating flu can be.

Especially when you consider that they are in a city near Seoul that has suddenly become ground zero for a devastating outbreak of avian flu.

IT IS a devastating prospect.

Then a devastating tsunami followed.