How to Use swine flu in a Sentence

swine flu

noun
  • Also, this isn't the first time the world has grappled with swine flu.
    Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 30 June 2020
  • Like most flu vaccines, the one for the swine flu was grown in chicken eggs.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Sellers at the time claimed that swine flu was one of the many ailments MMS could treat.
    Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
  • That ties the highest level seen in the U.S. during swine flu in 2009.
    Mike Stobbe and Andy Marso, kansascity, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The same Fauci who blew the swine flu in 2009 with his buddies Obama and Biden.
    Michael Lee, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
  • In 1976, during a troubling outbreak of the swine flu, Pres.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 5 Sep. 2020
  • There was a swine flu pandemic in 2009 in the United States.
    Dan Gelston, The Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Eighty percent of swine flu deaths were in people younger than 65.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • In 2009, for example, the virus to fear was swine flu, which had jumped from pigs to people in spring of that year.
    Amber Dance, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Kids, who are among the most vulnerable to the flu, went back to school in September, and the swine flu spread around the world.
    Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The number of positive tests is the highest since the swine flu outbreak.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • That’s the highest level since the swine flu pandemic in 2009.
    Stacey Burling, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The vast majority of the claims under the program have stemmed from the H1N1 swine flu vaccine a decade ago.
    Matt Sedensky, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • President Barack Obama did that in 2009 for an outbreak of the swine flu.
    Gregory Korte, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
  • More to the point, the nation has been tested by actual pandemics: HIV and swine flu.
    Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • And the swine flu shot seemed to roll out without too many noticeable problems.
    Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Well, for one, some historic pandemics, named for their species of origin, are called swine flu.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 July 2020
  • All had been infected with swine flu three to six months before.
    The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • The more recent swine flu, while less fatal, has been traced back to pigs raised for food in North America.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
  • The swine flu of 2009 is often remembered as the pandemic that cried wolf.
    Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Pig sales were already down after an outbreak of African swine flu last year.
    Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The flu has further tightened its grip on the U.S. This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago.
    Mike Stobbe and Andy Marso, kansascity, 9 Feb. 2018
  • In 2009, cases of swine flu caused the U.S. to declare a public health emergency.
    Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Many of those pigs are fighting off the swine flu, under their owner's care, and the watch of the Department of Agriculture.
    CBS News, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Months earlier, the governor had called a state of emergency as the swine flu spread throughout New York and the rest of the country.
    Rebecca McCray, Curbed, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The project, however, failed to predict the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
    WIRED, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The hospitalization rates at the season’s peak were the highest the state had seen since the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
    Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • In 2009, the swine flu pandemic spiked in early summer, then again in early fall.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 10 June 2020
  • Similarly, the H1N1 Influenza virus that caused the swine flu is believed to have come from pigs.
    Dr. Angela N. Baldwin, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The United States struggled with two strange new outbreaks of its own, of swine flu and Legionnaires’ disease.
    Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2015

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