Asian flu
Asian flu
nounDefinition of ASIAN FLU
: influenza that is caused by a subtype (H2N2) of the orthomyxovirus causing influenza A and that was responsible for about 70,000 deaths in the United States in the influenza pandemic of 1957–58 —called also Asian influenza
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1957
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