A short-lived stomach disorder of unknown cause, popularly attributed to a virus.
（原因不明的短暂的）胃机能紊乱（一般认为是病毒引起）
Harold had gone home, pleading that he was suffering from gastric flu
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Having decided subconsciously that he probably had gastric flu that was doing the rounds in Exeter, I thought that a quick dose of prochlorperazine would rectify the situation.
Hundreds of pupils across South Yorkshire are off school with the gastric flu bug currently sweeping the country.
He not only brought home our only ‘bracelet’, he did it with severe gastric flu.
He has been suffering from gastric flu but should recover.
At first the symptoms seemed similar to a bout of gastric flu that he had suffered in 2003.
Scores of schoolchildren on a ‘holiday of a lifetime’ were rushed back to the UK on a specially-chartered plane after a virulent strain of gastric flu struck down teachers and pupils.
Pupils are still being struck down by the gastric flu bug at Britain's worst-hit school.
He was a partner in an engineering firm which he co-founded, and spent many hours bird-watching, but his lifestyle was turned upside down by the condition, which developed after a bad bout of gastric flu.
Actors can be terribly frustrating company; as forthcoming as a bout of gastric flu when talking about their character or spouting their studio line, mute when the conversation moves towards anything more substantial.
Britain is in the grip of a gastric flu outbreak that has spread from hospitals in Scotland to the south coast, health chiefs said yesterday.
Dave has an stomach ulcer, gastric flu and is practically bed-ridden.
After testing my heart, pulse, lungs, blood pressure etc., he decided I needed a blood test because I might be anaemic or have some sort of gastric flu.
She had a nasty bout of gastric flu just before the Christmas party season.
Norwalk-like virus, which is also called winter vomiting disease, or gastric flu, causes sickness, diarrhoea and fever and typically lasts from 24 to 48 hours.
Tests have identified the main cause of the outbreak as Norwalk virus, which is sometimes known as winter vomiting disease or gastric flu.