"con crud" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From con + crud (“disease”). The former part a shortening of conference or convention. The latter part meaning any disease, from earlier army and student slang for venereal disease (“sexually transmitted disease”).",
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          "ref": "1999 September 18, Allen Kitchen, “A proposal for ALFers”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet), message-ID <A6D29FFCD278DB9B.8E59F475769021D7.8D510A7C0C424992@lp.airnews.net>",
          "text": "Much has been said about those who go to furry and SciFi conventions and return with the \"Con Crud.\"",
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          "text": "The root canal will be done again as soon as I've recovered from my Worldcon dose of con crud.",
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          "ref": "2003 September 22, diane, “Re: Gatecon report”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1 (Usenet), message-ID <20030922013153387+0100@news.btinternet.com>",
          "text": "any con crud? lots of people seem to have gone down with something, some are still stranded in Vancouver too ill to fly home :-((",
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          "ref": "2017 June 10, Lightning Bliss, “Lightning Bliss's Guide to Con Survival”, in YouTube",
          "text": "[I]t [the 6-2-1 Rule] is a well-known rule that every con-goer should follow, because it will help you to avoid the dreaded con crud.",
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        "(fandom slang) An illness resulting from having people from a wide variety of places at a single gathering such as a convention, allowing disease to spread easily among them due to lack of immunity."
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          "english": "contracted at universities",
          "word": "freshers' flu"
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