Hong Kong flu
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1968 flu pandemic
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So called because it originated in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong
flu
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uncountable
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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.
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