English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van "griep" is 'n akute virusinfeksie van die respiratoriese kanaal wat gekenmerk word deur koors, kouekoors, hoofpyn, spierpyne en 'n hoes, en word veroorsaak deur enige van verskeie ortomiksovirusse, veral die griepvirustipes A, B en C. Griep is hoogs aansteeklik en kan vinnig deur gemeenskappe versprei, wat wydverspreide siektes veroorsaak en soms tot ernstige komplikasies of dood lei, veral by bejaardes of mense met verswakte immuunstelsels.

Synonyms

  1. flu
  2. grippe

Sentence Examples

  1. He caught himself a nasty case of the influenza on a trip up to High Falls.
  2. We who survived the Great War, and the influenza plague that called away our loved ones, need comfort, not science.
  3. This afternoon I had a wire from the ruffian saying he had got influenza at Blackpool, and here am I left to do the whole thing myself.
  4. Still, catching a phrase or two ate at his bowels like a low-level influenza.
  5. Your father asked Doc Gaylin to keep it quiet, say it was the influenza what took her.
  6. Sadly, her mother, Rosemary, died from influenza when Bebe was a toddler.
  7. Sadly, they enjoyed only a few months of liberty before Willis succumbed to the influenza.