The phrase "arrested the spread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that the growth or increase of something, such as a disease or a problem, has been halted or controlled.
Example: "The new health measures implemented by the government successfully arrested the spread of the virus in the community."
Alternatives: "halted the spread" or "stopped the spread".
Nevertheless, after a median treatment of 10 months, 18 patients improved substantially on the drug, and it arrested the spread of cancer in 11 others.
In a double blind randomized trial conducted in India, Parsad et al reported that 40 mg of Ginkgo biloba three times per day for 6 months arrested the spread of vitiligo in 20 out of 25 participants in the active group, and induced marked (75% or greater) repigmentation in 10 of those participants.
He was anxious to arrest the spread of means-tested top-up help for pensioners, which discourages private retirement saving.
One of the measures to arrest the spread of CMBV is to develop methods to screen and certify citrus propagules as CMBV-free.
Its immediate purpose was to arrest the spread of slavery and, as he put it, to unseat the "privileged class" — Southern slaveholders, who still dominated the government.
Her work on landscape connectivity, slated to appear in the June issue of the same journal, drives home the difficult decisions facing policymakers as they attempt to arrest the spread of the new species and others like it.
The toll made it one of the deadliest days since the US troop surge a year ago began to arrest the spread of violence.
In many forest ecosystems, fire is critical in maintaining indigenous plant communities, but can either promote or arrest the spread of invasive species depending on their regeneration niche and resprouting ability.
"This is a large-scale exercise," said Lily Yam, the secretary for the environment and food, "but we feel that early and determined action is necessary to arrest the spread of the influenza".
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