bird flu

noun

1. Also called: avian flu. a form of influenza occurring in poultry mainly in Japan, China and Southeast Asia, caused by a virus capable of spreading to humans

Example Sentences

About 20,000 chickens are to be culled after a suspected case of bird flu was found at a farm in County Tyrone.

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Bird flu has continued to circulate in the wild bird population.

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There were four outbreaks of bird flu in Northern Ireland in February – three in commercial poultry farms in Newmills, Pomeroy and Cookstown, and one in a captive bird collection in Magherafelt.

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Twenty-two projects had been examining how the vaccine technology could counter viruses such as bird flu.

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A sample of 22 were tested and found to have bird flu.

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