How to Use bird flu in a Sentence

bird flu

noun

• There have not been any cases of the bird flu in humans this year.
  — Dallas News, 5 Apr. 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
• More than a dozen types of bird flu have been identified, according to the CDC.
  — NBC News, 23 Mar. 2022
• When bird flu cases are found in poultry, officials order the entire flock to be killed because the virus is so contagious.
  — Josh Funk, Chron, 10 Apr. 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
• New cases of bird flu have appeared in more than 40 countries over the last six months, according to OiE.
  — Chuck Johnston, CNN, 27 Feb. 2022
• Although inflation is largely blamed for much of the rising prices of everyday items, the avian, or bird flu is the main factor making egg prices spike.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
• Last Friday, the Missouri health department announced a recent human case of bird flu.
  — Keren Landman, Vox, 10 Sep. 2024
• And health officials say no human cases of bird flu have been found in the United States during this current outbreak.
  — CBS News, 7 Apr. 2022
• Several poultry farms in the U.S. are currently battling bird flu outbreaks.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2022
• Officials emphasize that bird flu doesn’t jeopardize the safety of meat or eggs or represent a significant risk to human health.
  — Josh Funk, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2022
• One of the sick health workers tested negative for influenza, Daskalakis said, suggesting that their symptoms weren’t related to bird flu.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
• And some of these viruses had recently jumped the species barrier — bird flu infecting badgers, dog coronaviruses infecting raccoon dogs.
  — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
• Since at least the late 1990s, influenza experts have warned that new strains of bird flu could jump from birds to humans, and that China’s live animal markets were the most likely source.
  — Steven Salzberg, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• In the case of bird flu, there have been some mixed messages.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 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
• 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
• 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
• 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: 29 Oct 2024