The phrase "away from the epidemic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or action that is distancing or separating from an epidemic, often in a public health context.
Example: "The government implemented strict measures to keep the population away from the epidemic and ensure public safety."
Alternatives: "distanced from the epidemic" or "separated from the epidemic".
David Grubb, a former senator in the West Virginia legislature who laid a pair of pink and purple running shoes to remember his daughter Jessie, said politicians shied away from taking the epidemic seriously because of the stigma around addiction.
Whew, we have almost survived N.F.L. draft fever, which will ebb just in time for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to turn all its attention to swine flu and away from the frightening epidemic of analyzing draft picks.
Since then, the focus has turned away from blame to understanding the epidemic's origins.
However, a careful intertextual analysis sheds light on a pivotal moment in the development of anticontagionist thought, a subtle but highly significant shift in emphasis away from the idea that epidemic diseases were produced by climatic conditions and toward the idea that they derived from specific local corruptions of the atmosphere caused by putrefying matter.
The poor, lived mostly on bread, stews, gruels and low alcohol beer, however in the country outside of the city, the access to farm produce was higher and the aristocracy typically retired away from the city during epidemics and other problems in the cities and generally ate more healthily.
He called this a fact of life in an open society, one that could lead to major problems in an outbreak of pandemic influenza, in which many people would probably be boarding planes knowing they were sick to get away from an epidemic.
The term 'global health' began to be used on a wider scale in the 1990s with the rapidly growing forces of globalization and the shifting of focus, away from controlling epidemics spreading across national boundaries, toward addressing the health needs of peoples across the planet (5), as well as toward more focus on equity among populations and addressing the root causes of ill health.
Nevertheless, aviation leaves countries only a flight away from the possibility of being exposed to serious epidemics from many infectious diseases, as was vividly illustrated earlier this year by SARS.
"A huge motivator in this is the HIV epidemic just 35 miles away from the city — caused mostly by folks who are addicted to heroin and sharing dirty needles," said Dave Langdon, a spokesman for the Louisville Department of Public Health and Wellness.
Tucked away in Liberia's remote southeastern corner, Grand Gedeh County had largely been spared from the epidemic; at that point, only 1 case had been reported since the epidemic's onset.
