Concept cluster: Health > Pandemic influenza strains
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(slang) Asian flu
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A form of influenza that originated in China and became a worldwide pandemic in the 1950s.
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Synonym of Asian flu
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Avian influenza.
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1786, Hunter, John, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, London, Part II, Chapter IX, Section VI, page 108:
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Ebola fever.
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Influenza.
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(humorous, offensive) An epidemic of influenza or other illness associated with China or Asia.
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A rare double infection of influenza and COVID-19.
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(slang, vulgar) Flulike symptoms caused by acute retroviral syndrome.
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(pathology, obsolete, slang, 1980s) Synonym of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”)
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(medicine) A strain of influenza, the most common cause of flu in humans; also the strain responsible for swine flu.
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(medicine) A strain of avian influenza, often lethal in humans but not transmissible between humans.
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A form of influenza caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus, descended from H2N2 through antigenic shift, that killed around one million people worldwide during an outbreak in 1968 and 1969.
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Synonym of Hong Kong flu
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(dated) influenza
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Synonym of H1N1
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A spelling variant of man flu
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Synonym of Mexican influenza
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The outbreak of 2009 swine flu pandemic.
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swine influenza
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(informal, rare) Synonym of swine flu
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(science fiction, ufology, fandom slang, slang) A generic disease found in space, especially one transmissible by sexual encounters.
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Alternative letter-case form of Spanish flu
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Alternative letter-case form of Spanish influenza [(pathology) A form of influenza that spread to nearly every part of the world in a pandemic between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people.]
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(medicine) Influenza caused by certain orthomyxoviruses, which pass from pigs to humans.
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(historical) The inoculation of a person with smallpox with the intention of inducing a mild form of the illness and subsequent immunity to the disease.
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(medicine, obsolete) Variolation: inoculation against smallpox using material from a smallpox lesion
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(of a disease or disease agent) Transmitted by a vector, such as mosquitos.
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(informal, metonymically) A disease caused by such an infectious agent; a viral illness.
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(medicine) Malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium vivax.
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(pathology, virology, informal, politically offensive in Mainland China) A form of pneumonia due to infection by a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which is genetically similar to SARS and MERS.

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