Asian flu

Pathology.

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

Also called Asian influenza.

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British Dictionary definitions for asian flu

Asian flu

noun

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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