ILLNESS

The flu, for one

• Affliction

• Complaint

• Contracted thing

• Epidemiologist's concern

• Flu, e.g.

• Health problem

• Hypochondriac's preoccupation

• Indisposition

• It's contracted

• M.D.'s focus

• Malady

• More of a zinger by Irvin S. Cobb regarding his boss, Charles Chapin

• Reason for a note to the teacher

• Reason to miss work

• Sick situation

• Susan Sontag's ___ as Metaphor

• Unhealthy condition

• Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism