How to Use swine flu in a Sentence

swine flu

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  • All had been infected with swine flu three to six months before.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • That peak level of intensity was the highest seen since the swine flu pandemic of 2009.
    — Kim Painter, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Greaves' sleuthing turned up evidence that all seven patients had been infected in a swine flu outbreak three to six months prior to their diagnosis.
    — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
  • Sent feverish, coughing, achy people to doctors’ offices at a peak rate not seen since 2009, when a new swine flu virus caused a pandemic.
    — Kim Painter, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The hospitalization rates at the season’s peak were the highest the state had seen since the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
    — Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • His rationale is revenge, alleging that our side unleashed a swine flu pandemic that decimated their Earth, killing over half a billion people.
    — Ron Gilmer, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The researchers, however, discovered that the sickly pups in China harbored two types of H1N1 swine flu viruses.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 June 2018
  • Six years later, worried about the international movement of swine flu, Australia set up screening at all eight airports that receive international flights.
    — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 22 May 2018
  • Boatner said the Oregon population is relatively disease free, although one was found with swine flu, a respiratory disease in pigs that can spread to humans.
    — Kyle Spurr, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2018
  • Also, this isn't the first time the world has grappled with swine flu.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 30 June 2020
  • Like most flu vaccines, the one for the swine flu was grown in chicken eggs.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Sellers at the time claimed that swine flu was one of the many ailments MMS could treat.
    — Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The same Fauci who blew the swine flu in 2009 with his buddies Obama and Biden.
    — Michael Lee, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
  • In 1976, during a troubling outbreak of the swine flu, Pres.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 5 Sep. 2020
  • There was a swine flu pandemic in 2009 in the United States.
    — Dan Gelston, The Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Eighty percent of swine flu deaths were in people younger than 65.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • In 2009, for example, the virus to fear was swine flu, which had jumped from pigs to people in spring of that year.
    — Amber Dance, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Kids, who are among the most vulnerable to the flu, went back to school in September, and the swine flu spread around the world.
    — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The number of positive tests is the highest since the swine flu outbreak.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The vast majority of the claims under the program have stemmed from the H1N1 swine flu vaccine a decade ago.
    — Matt Sedensky, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • More to the point, the nation has been tested by actual pandemics: HIV and swine flu.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • And the swine flu shot seemed to roll out without too many noticeable problems.
    — Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Well, for one, some historic pandemics, named for their species of origin, are called swine flu.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 July 2020
  • The swine flu of 2009 is often remembered as the pandemic that cried wolf.
    — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Pig sales were already down after an outbreak of African swine flu last year.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2020
  • In 2009, cases of swine flu caused the U.S. to declare a public health emergency.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Months earlier, the governor had called a state of emergency as the swine flu spread throughout New York and the rest of the country.
    — Rebecca McCray, Curbed, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The project, however, failed to predict the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
    — WIRED, 7 Jan. 2023
  • In 2009, the swine flu pandemic spiked in early summer, then again in early fall.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 10 June 2020
  • Truth be told, things were bananas even before the pandemic: just think of the Great Recession, the 2009 swine flu pandemic, and Brexit.
    — Marianne Cooper, Scientific American, 18 June 2024

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