Wuhan pneumonia en · NOUN
Etymology
A respiratory disease first reported in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019, from Wuhan + pneumonia.
Meanings
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(dated, informal, qualifier:politically offensive in Mainland China, uncountable) A form of pneumonia due to infection by a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which is genetically similar to SARS and MERS.
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.
2020 January 24, Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, “A familial cluster of pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus indicating person-to-person transmission: a study of a family cluster”, in The Lancet^(https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30154-9/fulltext):
Coordinates
severe acute respiratory syndrome · SARS · Middle East respiratory syndrome · MERS
Hypernyms
Relateds
Wuhan coronavirus · Wuhan virus
Synonyms
Translations (5)
es neumonía de Wuhan (form of pneumonia) · cmn 武漢肺炎 /武汉肺炎 (form of pneumonia) · ja 武漢肺炎 (form of pneumonia) · ko 우한 폐렴 (form of pneumonia) · yue 武漢肺炎 /武汉肺炎 (form of pneumonia)