Example Sentences

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The fresh mutations have happened in a group of H3N2 influenzas.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

Human contact with nonhuman animals accounts for our influenzas as well, which usually emerge from wild aquatic birds.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2023

That’s because avian and swine influenzas have caused pandemics in humans, including the 1918 flu pandemic, which was caused by a virus that originated in birds, and the 2009 swine flu pandemic.

From Scientific American • Apr. 24, 2023

“In the last 20 years we’ve had many of these pathogens emerge or re-emerge: SARS, MERS, different avian influenzas, Zika, yellow fever and of course SARS-CoV-2,” van Kerkhove said.

From Reuters • Aug. 20, 2021

Mr. Joseph Kilgore was suffering from one of those spring influenzas which make a man feel as if he were his own grandfather.

From Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment 1898 by Bellamy, Edward