How to Use bird flu in a Sentence

bird flu

noun

• The threat of bird flu to humans has changed poultry farming practices worldwide.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
• Can bird flu kill people? Avian influenza can be fatal in humans.
  — WSJ, 2 June 2021
• China announced a possible first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu.
  — Washington Post, 2 June 2021
• Cases of bird flu in humans have most commonly been reported among those in close daily contact with poultry, such as chicken farmers.
  — WSJ, 2 June 2021
• The mRNA vaccines have been in development and testing for 20 years and were used to treat bird flu.
  — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• This is because bird flu strains can be particularly deadly among human populations.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 2 June 2021
• Even more gruesome are the methods used in the U.S. to kill millions of chickens and turkeys when bird flu is detected on a factory farm.
  — Peter Singer, TIME, 26 Oct. 2024
• The federal government has also stockpiled emergency bird flu vaccines.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
• Wasn’t that, at least partly, how bird flu, swine flu and a thousand other nameless plagues were prevented from decimating the American masses?
  — New York Times, 16 June 2021
• Romanian officials quarantine a village of about 30 people after three dead ducks there test positive for bird flu.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 6 June 2021
• In the case of bird flu, there have been some mixed messages.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The main culprit for rising egg prices is a familiar one: bird flu.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
• The United States is in the middle of an unprecedented bout of bird flu, also known as H5N1.
  — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024