Sentence examples for virus devastated from inspiring English sources

The smallpox virus devastated numerous societies throughout history before its eradication.

Beginning in late December 2003, an epidemic of avian (bird) flu, a deadly disease of birds caused by type A influenza viruses, devastated poultry populations in most of Southeast Asia.

Though the Chinese government acknowledges that the current virus has devastated pig stocks in coastal and southern areas, it has not admitted what experts say is clear: the virus is rapidly moving inland and westward, to areas such as this one in Sichuan Province, China's largest pork-producing region.

The A(H5N1) strain of the virus has devastated poultry in Vietnam and killed 13 of the 14 people infected in the last five weeks.

Twitter responds This year, both Liberia and Sierra Leone declared themselves free from Ebola, the deadly virus that devastated their populations and destroyed their fragile economies in 2014.

About 1,100 lobstermen from New York and Connecticut filed a federal lawsuit yesterday charging that pesticides sprayed last year to kill mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus have devastated the lobster population in Long Island Sound.

Mr. Scalise, the industry association's leader, said that at least part of the strong demand from China could be attributed to purchases delayed from earlier in the year, when the outbreak of the SARS virus briefly devastated the Hong Kong economy and wreaked havoc in several major cities in China.

Willis took roles in a number of violent and darkly comedic films, including Pulp Fiction (1994), in which he played a professional boxer who double-crosses a mobster after agreeing to throw a fight; 12 Monkeys (1995), about a convict sent back in time to investigate a virus that devastated humankind; and The Fifth Element (1997), a visually impressive science-fiction action film.

Since its first detection in 1997, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus has devastated the poultry industry of numerous countries of the Eastern Hemisphere.

The new film continues the story of that rebellion's instigator, an intelligent chimpanzee by the name of Caesar, but picks up his story after a manmade virus has devastated the human population.

A few weeks ago, Samy Kamkar — the endlessly clever gent behind the USB necklace that'll hack your computer and the self-title Samy virus that devastated MySpace back in the day — demonstrated a way to crack a Master Lock by hand in just a few minutes.