Wuhan pneumonia

English

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Etymology

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

Noun

Wuhan pneumonia (uncountable)

1. (pathology, virology, informal, politically offensive in Mainland China) A form of pneumonia due to infection by a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which is genetically similar to SARS and MERS.
   • 2020 January 9, “Wuhan pneumonia outbreak: Mystery illness 'caused by coronavirus”, in BBC‎^[1]:

   • 2020 January 11, Shaun Lintern, “Wuhan pneumonia: First death reported by mystery Chinese virus”, in Independent‎^[2]:

   • 2020 January 22, “Monitoring Wuhan Pneumonia”, in Columbia Health‎^[3]:

   • 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^[4]:

     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.

Synonyms

• COVID-19 (see there for more)

Hypernyms

• pneumonia

Coordinate terms

• severe acute respiratory syndrome / SARS
• Middle East respiratory syndrome / MERS

Translations

form of pneumonia

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 武漢肺炎／武汉肺炎 (zh) (Wǔhàn fèiyán)

• Japanese: 武漢肺炎 (Bukan haien)
• Korean: 우한 폐렴 (Uhan pyeryeom)
• Spanish: neumonía de Wuhan f

See also

• Wuhan virus
• Wuhan coronavirus

Further reading

• Coronavirus disease 2019 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia