lurgy

A fictitious, highly infectious disease; sometimes as a reference to flu-like symptoms.

the dreaded lurgy

He was helped, of course, by his presentational skills, still present here despite a sore throat and what seemed to be a spot of the perennial conference lurgy.

Any uncategorised disease with symptoms similar to a cold or flu that renders one unable to work.

Blocked nose, watering eyes, a sore throat – the signs of a cold are all too familiar. Here are seven ways to dodge the lurgy, or shrug it off sooner[.]