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Flu or a Bug?
Of late, apart from the four calendar seasons, there is yet another season referred to as the “flu season.” During this time of the year, we routinely hear the phrase “the flu is going around.” I was surprised last week when I heard my 6-year-old son mention to me that there is some bug going around...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7121111/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28775-7_3 |
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description | Of late, apart from the four calendar seasons, there is yet another season referred to as the “flu season.” During this time of the year, we routinely hear the phrase “the flu is going around.” I was surprised last week when I heard my 6-year-old son mention to me that there is some bug going around in his class and that his best friend was sick. I asked him to define the bug and he said it causes stuffy nose. The word “bug” is used so callously by adults that it has been registered wrongly in the minds of the little ones. |
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spelling | pubmed-71211112020-04-06 Flu or a Bug? Akula, Shaw M. Essays on Life, Science and Society Article Of late, apart from the four calendar seasons, there is yet another season referred to as the “flu season.” During this time of the year, we routinely hear the phrase “the flu is going around.” I was surprised last week when I heard my 6-year-old son mention to me that there is some bug going around in his class and that his best friend was sick. I asked him to define the bug and he said it causes stuffy nose. The word “bug” is used so callously by adults that it has been registered wrongly in the minds of the little ones. 2019-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7121111/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28775-7_3 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7121111/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28775-7_3 |
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