asiatic flu

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

   SynonymsAsian influenza

   Broaderinfluenza

Questions about asiatic flu

What does asiatic flu mean?

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

What is another word for asiatic flu?

Close synonyms include Asian influenza. 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 asiatic flu a common word?

asiatic flu 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.