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Wuhan virus

noun

Etymology

From Wuhan + virus, q.v., from its presumed origin in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. The same name was separately and less prominently used in 1995 for a strain of H3N2 flu.

  1. derived from *wisós✻
  2. derived from *weizos✻
  3. derived from vīrus
  4. inherited from virus
  5. compounded as wuhan virus — “Wuhan + virus”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of coronavirus, the disease COVID-19.

    • This new “Wuhan virus” outbreak in China, which appears to be due to a novel coronavirus, is another warning to us about the need for more research in infectious diseases, epidemiology and control measures.
    • One of the 46, the man's 37-year-old son, is another confirmed case of the Wuhan virus.
    • The Wuhan virus isn’t the only pandemic to come from China.

  2. Synonym of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

    • We designed candidate diagnostic RT-PCR assays before release of the first sequence of the Wuhan virus.
    • Stop the Wuhan virus
    • The Wuhan virus has shown the world how China behaves.

  3. Synonym of A/Wuhan/359/95, a strain of H3N2 influenza.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA