Definition of "superflu" [superflu]

• Any strain of flu that spreads unusually quickly, is unusually virulent or is unusually unresponsive to treatment (noun)

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• "It's not that the miniseries was bad, but it looked different — and in the first ten minutes, the clear vision I'd had of the initial laboratory where the superflu was accidentally released had been swallowed whole by the considerably less-interesting visuals of the TV series."
• "'America's greatest crisis-and the world's, perhaps-deepened overnight as the so-called superflu, known as Tube-Neck in the Midwest and Captain Trips in California, continues to spread."
• "The same excellent tale of the walking dude, the chemical warfare weapon called superflu and the confrontation between its survivors has been updated to 1990, so references to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Reagan years, Roger Rabbit and AIDS are unnecessarily forced into the mouths of King's late-'70s characters."