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Hong Kong flu
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English
1968 flu pandemic
Etymology
So called because it originated in Hong Kong.
Noun
- Hong Kong flu
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.