Sentence examples for flu hit from inspiring English sources
When swine flu hit the United States in 2009, many organizations probably weren't ready.
(If a virus like the Hong Kong flu hit today, it would probably kill more people for the same reason).
And, even though this flu hit children and teenagers the hardest, only about 40 percent of them have had the shots.
Thailand, which was the world's fourth-largest exporter of poultry before bird flu hit, would be reluctant to abandon all hope of resuming exports.A deadly reservoirIn short, H5N1 bird flu has become endemic.
In Year Twenty, Kirsten, who was eight when the flu hit, is interviewed about her memories, and says that the new reality is hardest to bear for those old enough to remember how the world was before.
Dr. Martin S. Cetron, a flu expert at the disease control agency and the co-author of a 2007 study of how the 1918 flu hit 43 American cities, called the idea that flu is not big now because it was big in the spring "an interesting hypothesis, with biological plausibility," but said that only the rest of the winter would tell.
"Hong Kong Flu Hits Bay Ridge," screamed the headline.
It would be much easier simply to avoid all handshaking if the avian flu hits us.
The states have held drills for public health and safety workers to determine what to do when the flu hits, and they have developed increasingly sophisticated reporting systems that make doctors pick up the telephone immediately after seeing signs of certain diseases.
For a handful of scientists, the swine flu hitting the southern U.S. and Mexico bears an eerie resemblance to another outbreak more than 30 years ago.
