avian
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The civil antitrust lawsuit would target companies that significantly hiked egg prices in 2024 and 2025 due to a supply shortage attributed to avian flu.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
What has helped is that the threat of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, has faded.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026
Last year around the same time, supply disruptions—caused in part by avian flu—had driven egg prices to record high.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
So while soccer is part of the book’s narrative, the memoir is as much about the sport as “To Kill a Mockingbird” is about avian homicide.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
Over time mutation lets animal diseases jump to people: avian influenza becomes human influenza, bovine rinderpest becomes human measles, horsepox becomes human smallpox.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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