Health-care workers have begun to refer to the rise in influenza-like symptoms in Ontario, Manitoba and Quebec as a “flunami,” according to The Globe and Mail.
Submitted from: Canada on 20/01/2011
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The new coinage flunami first emerged back in 2006, in the context of discussions surrounding avian flu, the strain of flu which hit the headlines in 2004 and is also known as bird flu.