How to Use bird flu in a Sentence

bird flu

noun
  • In the case of bird flu, there have been some mixed messages.
    Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
  • Ditto for the bird flu before the Pyeongchang Olympics in 2018.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Over the past decade, the bird flu has become more common and spread to more places across the world, the CDC said.
    Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2022
  • There have not been any cases of the bird flu in humans this year.
    Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2022
  • These are the first detections of bird flu in the country since 2016.
    Serena Coady, SELF, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The last major bird flu outbreak in the United States was in 2015.
    Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Bird flu alert: Could this man in China be the world's first human with the H10N3 strain of bird flu?
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 1 June 2021
  • To date this year, 61 human cases of bird flu have been confirmed in the U.S.
    Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The culprit turned out to be a strain of bird flu, H7N2, never before seen in cats.
    Popular Science, 20 May 2020
  • While there have been other waves of bird flu in the past, this is the largest outbreak in the nation of a variant of the virus.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Deadlier strains of bird flu have been on the rise in recent years.
    oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Since the beginning of the year, there have been 16 cases of bird flu reported in the U.S.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Two cases of the bird flu have been confirmed in United States zoos.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 18 Apr. 2022
  • This doesn’t mean a bird flu pandemic is on the horizon.
    Kenny Torrella, Vox, 24 July 2024
  • This strain of bird flu has been documented since at least the 1990s.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • The reason: a bad season of bird flu that could end up as one for the history books.
    Erin Prater, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Still, there are plenty of open questions about bird flu.
    Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Related: Could cow vaccines help halt the spread of bird flu in U.S. herds?
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 July 2024
  • The country was preparing for the risk of a pandemic of H5N1 bird flu.
    Scott Gottlieb, WSJ, 23 May 2021
  • More than a dozen types of bird flu have been identified, according to the CDC.
    NBC News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Realize that birds don’t have to look sick to carry bird flu.
    Erin Prater, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The price of eggs has skyrocketed because of a shortage caused by the bird flu.
    Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • This year, the birds have been dying from the highly contagious avian bird flu.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In Peru, at least 585 sea lions have been found dead, likely due to bird flu.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Only one other human case of bird flu has been confirmed in the U.S.
    CBS News, 24 May 2024
  • The avian flu - a highly contagious bird flu - has made a comeback in the United States.
    Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • According to the Cleveland Clinic, the death rate for bird flu in humans is over 50%.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The recent bird flu outbreak has affected the prices of chicken and eggs.
    Alysha Witwicki, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2022
  • Even if this case proves to be a false alarm, people tracking bird flu seem more on edge than ever.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Also, last week, the first case of severe bird flu was confirmed in a human patient in Louisiana, according to the CDC.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024

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