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Asian flu

A·sian flu

(ā'zhăn flū)

Influenza caused by H₂N₂ influenza A virus that was responsible for over 60,000 deaths in the United States during the 1957 to 1958 influenza pandemic.

Asian flu

An acute viral INFLUENZA caused by the influenza A-2 virus.

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It seems to me that just yesterday we were worried about SARS, and before that the flesh-eating disease, and before them the Asian flu and the Hong Kong flu, not to mention the 1918 Spanish flu, which almost did kill everyone, but that was before good vaccines or, er, government assistance.

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In 1957-1958, Asian flu (H2N2) killed 70,000 people in the United States.

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Asian Flu (1957-1958)--Believed responsible for 70,000 deaths in the United States alone.

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Asian flu (1957-1958): Caused about 70,000 deaths in the US.

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SINGAPORE - Two laboratories in Singapore that received samples of a virus that triggered the 1957-1958 Asian flu pandemic destroyed them in the wake of an alert from the World Health Organization, a Singapore Health Ministry spokeswoman said Thursday.