How to Use bird flu in a Sentence

bird flu

noun

• Egg prices have been rising as a bird flu outbreak limits supply.
  — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
• Two cases of the bird flu have been confirmed in United States zoos.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 18 Apr. 2022
• Bald eagles across the country are falling victim to a deadly bird flu.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
• How much the bird flu has spread beyond infected farms remains unclear.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
• These are the first detections of bird flu in the country since 2016.
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 19 Apr. 2022
• The bird flu surge has also temporarily shut down the aviaries in many U.S. zoos and has sickened zoo birds.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 22 Apr. 2022
• Birds at the Detroit Zoo were moved indoors in response to protect from bird flu exposure.
  — Elissa Welle, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
• Now, the number of people becoming infected with bird flu is ticking upward.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 July 2024
• However, there have been human bird flu cases in the past, stemming from other avian influenza subtypes.
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 19 Apr. 2022
• For those who wish to keep their bird feeders in place, Moriarty suggested a number of steps to reduce the spread of bird flu.
  — Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2022
• Among the latest victims of the bird flu outbreak sweeping across the country: the national bird of the United States.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
• Mild symptoms of bird flu in humans have included eye redness or flu-like upper respiratory symptoms.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 21 Apr. 2022
• Human cases of bird flu are rare but can cause eye infections, upper respiratory symptoms, pneumonia and even death.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
• Egg prices — which had surged in 2022 due to a historic outbreak of bird flu — are rising again following a re-emergence of the deadly disease.
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024
• Songbirds appear less prone to bird flu, although Moriarty noted testing of songbirds is limited and much is still unknown.
  — Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2022
• In Minnesota, which has detected cases of bird flu within its dairy cattle, the state is requiring all cows to have a negative bird flu test before coming to the state fair.
  — Benjamin Thorp, NPR, 4 Sep. 2024
• In the case of bird flu, there have been some mixed messages.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024