How to Use bird flu in a Sentence
bird flu
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No human bird flu cases linked to the milk have been reported.
— Sam Tupper, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024 -
Interest in turkey has been steadily falling, thanks in part to price increases five years ago when flocks were hit by bird flu.
— CBS News, 30 Oct. 2020 -
But interest in turkey has been steadily falling, thanks in part to price increases five years ago when flocks were hit by bird flu.
— Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2020 -
On Sunday the British government said the public health risk was very low, and the bird flu does not pose a food safety risk.
— Frank Miles, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2020 -
California health officials have issued a warning against drinking a second lot of raw milk due to the bird flu virus.
— Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024 -
Egg prices are rising once more as a lingering outbreak of bird flu coincides with the high demand of the holiday baking season.
— Mark Vancleave, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024 -
The developers claim the gloves have been shown to protect against influenza, bird flu, and other coronaviruses.
— Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2020 -
As of Sunday evening, no illnesses had been reported in association with the finding of bird flu in the single lot of raw milk.
— Eric M. Strauss, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2024 -
Pasteurization is a process that involves heating liquids for a specific amount of time to kill dangerous bacteria and viruses like bird flu.
— Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2024 -
That’s not to mention the real possibility that a strain of bird flu lurking at poultry markets could jump to humans and cause an overlapping pandemic.
— Sarah Elizabeth Richards, National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2020 -
Ebola was ravaging West Africa and bird flu was circulating again, bringing infectious disease concerns back to the foreground.
— Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 20 Aug. 2020 -
The recommendation coincides with a new report finding asymptomatic bird flu infection in some workers.
— Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024 -
The alarm bells set off by a 1997 Hong Kong bird flu outbreak, one that leapt from poultry to humans, spurred years of work to modernize pandemic planning.
— Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020 -
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 -
Bird flu alert: Could this man in China be the world's first human with the H10N3 strain of bird flu?
— Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 1 June 2021 -
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 -
The country was preparing for the risk of a pandemic of H5N1 bird flu.
— Scott Gottlieb, WSJ, 23 May 2021 -
More than a dozen types of bird flu have been identified, according to the CDC.
— NBC News, 23 Mar. 2022
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