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Asian influenza

pandemic influenza caused by a strain of the influenza virus first isolated in Singapore in 1957

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noun

Influenza caused by a strain of the most common influenza virus (type A), which was first isolated in China during the 1957 epidemic. Also called Asian flu.

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