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n. A form of influenza that originated in China and became a worldwide pandemic in the 1950s.
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Asian flu may refer to:
- Asian flu, the H2N2 virus
- The 1997 Asian financial crisis
Usage examples of "asian flu".
Last year we had an Egyptian flu, the year before it was an Asian flu, but this year the malheur seems to be our own entirely.
Groups of special visitors to Mordon were not infrequent: visiting scientists from the Commonwealth and Nato countries or an occasional small group of MP's who were given to asking awkward questions in the Commons and were brought down to Mordon to see for themselves the sterling work being carried out there oil the health front against anthrax, polio, Asian flu and other diseases: such groups were shown exactly what the Mordon authorities wanted them to be shown and usually came away no wiser than they had arrived.
She said it looked like the Asian flu, and he should go to the hospital or at least his home.
A passenger, sterilized in body and mind (lest he bring into our great land either Asian flu or Asian ideas), pumped full of vitamins and videotapes, will be able to move from city to city, from continent to continent, and from planet to planet -- with ever-increasing speed and security.
When I woke up, with the sun shining down on my face, I felt awfulsick and stiff and depressed, the way I'd felt when I had Asian flu.