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Recent Examples of pathogenic
Texas officials confirmed Wednesday that highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI or bird flu) has been detected in Austin-Travis County after tests were performed on dead birds discovered in North Austin earlier this month.
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Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
Since highly pathogenic avian influenza surfaced in the United States in January 2022, the virus has been detected in wild birds and domestic poultry, according to the Fresno Bee’s previous reporting.
—Fernanda Galan, Sacramento Bee, 7 Jan. 2025
Highly pathogenic avian influenza can infect domestic poultry, resulting in high sickness and death rates, officials said, and in this current outbreak, cattle, cats and other mammals also are susceptible.
—Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
Despite the risk to humans remaining low, HHS has pledged $306 million to its response to the highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, also known as H5N1 bird flu.
—Jess Thomson, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
Since highly pathogenic avian influenza surfaced in the United States in January 2022, the virus has been detected in wild birds and domestic poultry, according to the Fresno Bee’s previous reporting.
—Fernanda Galan, Sacramento Bee, 7 Jan. 2025
Highly pathogenic avian influenza can infect domestic poultry, resulting in high sickness and death rates, officials said, and in this current outbreak, cattle, cats and other mammals also are susceptible.
—Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
Despite the risk to humans remaining low, HHS has pledged $306 million to its response to the highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, also known as H5N1 bird flu.
—Jess Thomson, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pathogenic
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On July 30, Ray updated her fans again, revealing her diagnosis of infective endocarditis, a severe heart infection.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
31 July 2024
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Hospitalizations for strokes related to opioid use and infective endocarditis, a life-threatening infection of the heart’s lining and valves, increased in people under 45 from 2006 through 2015, coinciding with the opioid epidemic’s onset, the authors added.—
Elizabeth Cooney,
STAT,
23 May 2024
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And existing immunity could, for a time, still buffer against an infectious deluge, especially from pathogens that remain quite rare globally.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2025
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This leaves the people who drink it vulnerable to infectious microbes or potentially other toxic contaminants.—
Bill Sullivan,
The Conversation,
27 Jan. 2025
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Unfortunately for this fish, crinoids don't have much nutrition and have a coating of mucus that can be toxic to fish.—
James Doubek,
NPR,
29 Jan. 2025
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Gascón’s biologically male Emilia remains a toxic nonbinary whatzit even after surgery — ruthlessly forcing everyone into criminality, deception, and ethical compromises.—
Armond White,
National Review,
29 Jan. 2025
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Here a book worth considering is ‘From third world to first’ - Lee Kwan Yew's first person story of transforming Singapore from a pestilential swamp into a metropolis.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
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And to make matters worse, crime rates have risen, demonstrations by taxi drivers have turned violent, and a bungled garbage collection policy has blanketed Luanda with waste and a pestilential stench.—
Ricardo Soares De Oliveira,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Oct. 2015
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In an October 2022 article in the Montreal Gazette, Bryn Austin, a professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, highlighted how BMI can lead to harmful outcomes.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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Market intervention is always and everywhere harmful simply because markets are people.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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Seven-percent mortgages have been poisonous to homebuilders, and Horton was down 26% in the fourth quarter – in a rising market, at that.—
John Dorfman,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Social platforms are poised to become even more poisonous to their own users as a handful of outrageously rich and powerful men grapple with their own insecurities around masculinity and free speech.—
Megan Farokhmanesh,
WIRED,
15 Jan. 2025
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But the notion that Americans must accept a little terrorism and virulent Jew hatred along with their charitable works imposes a false choice on American taxpayers.—
The Editors,
National Review,
9 Jan. 2025
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Even if the Islamic Republic collapsed, it might only be replaced by a more virulent regime.—
Richard Nephew,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Jan. 2025
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Indeed, the technology is transforming so quickly that organizations may not even recognize potential threats or vulnerabilities until they are exposed in a malignant fashion.—
Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., J.D.,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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The decision, lauded by consumer advocacy groups, comes a full 25 years after scientists at the agency determined that rats fed large amounts of the artificial color additive were much more likely to develop malignant thyroid tumors than rats who weren’t given the food coloring.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Pathogenic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathogenic. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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