Asian flu

American  

Pathology.

1. a form of epidemic influenza caused by a virus believed to have been carried from Asia in the late 1950s.

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Asian flu British  

noun

1. a type of influenza recurring in worldwide epidemics, caused by a virus (A2 strain or subsequent antigenic variants), which apparently originated in China in 1957

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Example Sentences

Smith had “successfully vanquished” tuberculosis, scarlet fever, mumps and chicken pox by the time she had reached fourth grade, when she was struck with a virus during the Asian flu pandemic that nearly took her life.

From Los Angeles Times

Age nine, struck down with a virus during the Asian flu pandemic, and so ill the doctor says she probably won't survive, her mother bought her a boxset recording of Puccini's Madame Butterfly and put it within eyeshot of her bed.

From BBC

When she contracted Asian flu, the virus paralyzed her with “a vise cluster of migraines.”

From Los Angeles Times

My mother died in 1957 in the Asian flu pandemic.

From Washington Post

Hilleman stopped what had been called the “Asian flu” in its tracks.

From Washington Post