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Wuhan pneumonia

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A form of pneumonia due to infection by a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which is genetically similar to SARS and MERS. dated, informal, uncountable

    "This travel period overlapped with the time period after the announcement of the first case of Wuhan pneumonia (symptom onset on Dec 12, 2019) according to the Chinese health authority."

  2. 2
    a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020 wordnet

Etymology

A respiratory disease first reported in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019, from Wuhan + pneumonia.

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