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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Influenza caused by a strain of the most common influenza virus (type A), which was first isolated in China during a 1957 epidemic.
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- noun influenza caused by the Asian virus that was first isolated in 1957
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