Usually means: 1968 influenza pandemic originating Asia.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hong Kong flu)

noun:  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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