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The rise in prices and supply issues have been largely driven by the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, outbreak.—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2025 The rise in prices and supply issues have been largely driven by the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, outbreak.—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2025 The rise in prices has been largely driven by the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, outbreak.—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2025 Whenever a bird gets the virus, the whole flock gets slaughtered to prevent the highly pathogenic avian influenza from advancing further.—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pathogenic
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Etymology
patho- + -genic, after French pathogénique, German pathogenisch
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