Wuhan pneumonia

This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.

A respiratory disease first reported in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019,^[1] from Wuhan +‎ pneumonia.

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.

• COVID-19 (see there for more)

• pneumonia

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

• Wuhan virus
• Wuhan coronavirus

• Coronavirus disease 2019 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia