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countable and uncountable, plural influenzas or influenze
(pathology) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics. quotations
In early 1919 the Board also issued a film, Dr Wise on Influenza, in which a character called 'Brown' spreads the disease by enacting poor behaviours.This did address transport - by boarding a crowded omnibus, "Brown may be scattering germs throughout the carriage and giving influenza to a number of people".
2020 April 8, Dr David Turner, “How railway staff were conduits and victims of a pandemic”, in Rail, page 32