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Is this sentence correct?



"My flu is healed."




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Although people will understand you if you say “My flu has healed”, we don’t usually use “heal” for infections. Instead, we “recover” from infections.

Here are some more idiomatic ways to put it:

My flu’s better.
My flu’s gone.
I’ve got over my flu.
I’ve recovered from my/the flu.
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