Top 201 Flu Quotes & Sayings

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

Think about old people; think about young people, those with immune system problems. They can't really protect themselves well against the flu, so by you limiting the spread of the flu and getting vaccinated, you're helping protect them as well.

Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data is much sketchier, but the death toll is almost certainly higher.

I'm such a baby if I even get a flu.

There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

If there were 'intelligence flu', there would be so many people walking around in the damn cold weather, hoping to be contaminated by that flu!

It's either the flu or love... The symptoms are the same.

From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed ... into my mouth.

Just think: your family are the people most likely to give you the flu.

Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery

More than 50 million people around the world died during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. That's why we have epidemiologists all over the world tracking whether new strains of flu emerge.

The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.

Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We should be monitoring those animals and the humans that come into contact with them, so we can catch these viruses early, before they infect major cities and spread throughout the world.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.

China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.

It [salvation] is not this flu shot mentality of an invitation of the Gospel.

I am so pro-swine flu... I want it. We need a plague. It's got to happen; don't be afraid. It's only going to kill the weak.

With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.

When you get sick with the flu you get infected with flu viruses and they make lots of new flu viruses, but those new viruses are not exact copies of the old ones. They have mutations in them. A lot of those mutations are harmful.

We may be sucking in all sorts of viruses and we really don't know the full range of them. Maybe we've got flu virus inside of us. That's a possibility. Maybe we're part flu.

With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

The swine flu is evolution, isn't it? In a way, it's an evolution of flu.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.

Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.

People say: 'Models are so young, they're so skinny.' But Mr. Balenciaga used models at 16, and that will never change. People say they are skinny, but there is a difference between skinny and sick. If someone is sick, they're sick. It's not because of fashion. If I have flu, I have flu; it's not because I work in fashion.

Leave it to an Obama supporter to bring up Iraq in the middle of a conversation about the swine flu pandemic.

I am so pro-swine flu it's - it's like ridiculous.

I personally never get vaccinated for the flu, because no.

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

I played through flu-like symptoms before. It was frustrating.

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it.

I partnered with AstraZeneca to help launch the 'Mom Nose Best' campaign, where I provide tips for flu season.

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted.

I am a huge believer in the flu vaccine. I have had it every year and have never had the flu.

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

A local pharmacy is a great place to get a safe and effective COVID vaccine as well as a flu shot. It's critical that people get these vaccines to protect themselves and slow the spread of the COVID virus as well as the flu.

I had the flu in New York and pushed the President of the United States off the front pages.

A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

I don't know how not to get the flu.

The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!

Those people who get the flu shot not only protect themselves from getting the flu or reducing their likelihood of developing the flu, but those around them.

If an employee told you he had the flu, you'd send him home. If an employee told you he was feeling anxious, you'd probably tell him to get back to work. But the emotion is just as contagious as a flu virus.

The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.

We continue to recommend flu vaccine as the single best way to protect yourself against the flu. The vaccine will protect against strains covered in the vaccine, and it may have some effectiveness in the drifted strains.

Sometimes I don't even accept the simplest medical treatment, such as, for example, the anti-flu vaccine.