How to Use bird flu in a Sentence

bird flu

noun

• The last major bird flu outbreak in the United States was in 2015.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• An outbreak of the bird flu could make future trips to the grocery store more expensive.
  — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
• The calculus changed in 1997, after an outbreak of bird flu struck Hong Kong.
  — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
• The bird flu has caused a range of illnesses in humans before, from mild to severe.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
• The recent death of a Cambodian girl from bird flu is a reminder that much is at stake.
  — Robert Kadlec, STAT, 30 Mar. 2023
• Prices had soared in the past year after a bird flu outbreak, with a dozen large eggs reaching $7.37 in January.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• So far this year, 44.6 birds have died from the bird flu, including 6 million turkeys.
  — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Oct. 2022
• More than 43 million of the 58 million birds slaughtered over the past year to control the bird flu virus have been egg-laying chickens.
  — CBS News, 6 Feb. 2023
• When a bird flu epidemic starts threatening the farm, they are forced to rise above conflict and heal old wounds.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
• Yet cases of bird flu, and the cullings of millions of birds because of it, have caused a surge in pricing for the holiday staple.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Nov. 2022
• The egg and poultry industry has been dealing with a bird flu outbreak since last year.
  — Josh Funk, Fortune Well, 7 Nov. 2023
• The disease does not pose a high risk to humans, though some have been infected with bird flu viruses.
  — oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2022
• Just like on other farms where bird flu has been found this year, all the chickens on the Nebraska farm will be killed to limit the spread of the disease.
  — CBS News, 27 Nov. 2022
• The last notable bird flu outbreak occurred during the winter of 2014.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 14 Mar. 2023
• Egg prices had jumped a few months ago after an outbreak of bird flu and an increase in the cost of fuel, feed and packaging.
  — Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• But the bird flu outbreak has contributed to the rising prices of chicken and turkey along with the soaring cost of feed and fuel.
  — Josh Funk, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2022
• The current bird flu outbreak, which began in early 2022, is the largest in U.S. history.
  — Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
• The cases come just days after a group of young goats contracted bird flu on a Minnesota farm.
  — Joe Hernandez, NPR, 31 Mar. 2024
• Over the last several years, a highly lethal version of a bird flu virus known as H5N1 has spread rapidly around the globe, killing countless farmed and wild birds.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• SeaWorld San Diego halts bird rescue program over bird flu.
  — Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• Bird fly:Is the US prepared for a possible bird flu pandemic?
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024