asian influenza

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   influenza caused by the Asian virus that was first isolated in 1957

   SynonymsAsiatic flu

   Broaderinfluenza

Questions about asian influenza

What does asian influenza mean?

asian influenza means "influenza caused by the Asian virus that was first isolated in 1957".

What is another word for asian influenza?

Close synonyms include Asiatic flu. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asian influenza a common word?

asian influenza is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.