Sentence examples for got influenza from inspiring English sources

You know, I remember when we were getting ready for the upfronts [i.e. spring presentations to advertisers] after the pilot, and I got influenza and I lost like 15 pounds in like three days.

Perceived susceptibility was measured with the item "How likely is it that you will get influenza from a new influenza pandemic in the next 12 months?" and perceived severity was measured with the item "How awful would it be if, in the next 12 months, you got influenza from a new influenza virus that has become a worldwide pandemic?".

Children younger than 9 years of age getting influenza vaccine for the first time – or who got influenza vaccine for the first time last season but got only one dose – should get 2 doses, at least 4 weeks apart, to be protected.

Most people who get influenza recover quickly.

When pregnant women get influenza, they tend to get really sick.

Some people are averse to the risk of getting influenza from the vaccine – their fear is unfounded.

And even if given a flu shot, a person could still get influenza, said Dr. Marguerite Neill, an infectious-disease specialist at Brown University.

Although we didn't wish to emulate the poet to the extent of getting influenza, we were somehow loath to return to the simplicity of village life.

However, according to the CDC, "most people who get influenza will recover in several days to less than two weeks". Complications range from sinus and other infections to pneumonia and organ failure.

"I want to very clearly get across the message that the first group of people that we're most concerned about getting vaccine into are people who are at the highest risk for getting influenza," said Dr. Keiji Fukuda of the centers' influenza branch "We're not just telling people to just indiscriminately go out and get vaccinated".

And although getting influenza once certainly does not protect us from being infected again by a different strain, it is entirely possible that the immunological memory of the first infection could reduce the severity of the second – not to the extent where it does not cause any symptoms but enough, perhaps, to prevent hospitalisation and death.