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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.
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Wuhan virus
Today it means: Synonym of coronavirus, the disease COVID-19. Full definition →