Sentence examples for big pandemic from inspiring English sources

Where, they wondered, was the big pandemic?

Baker is an infectious disease biologist who co-ordinates the Vizions project and I met him at his lab while I was making a Radio 4 documentary about the scientific hunt for the next big pandemic.

Another big pandemic could be in the works if the highly virulent H5N1 avian flu, which killed at least 24 people in Asia last winter, assumes a form that can be transmitted from person to person.

And this sort of work needs to happen with other viruses if scientists want a hope of predicting big pandemics.

"While all developed countries are in deficit, we must find new sources of financing for the struggle against poverty, for education and for the ending of the planet's big pandemics". The MDGs are intended to lift tens of millions of people out of poverty by 2015 and improve healthcare and education around the world.

The biggest pandemic on record was the 1918 Spanish influenza, which killed 50 million people at a time when the fastest way to travel the globe was by ship.

Researchers are particularly interested in the biggest pandemic of the 20th century, Spanish influenza in 1918.

Health experts welcomed the research initiative because the Pearl River delta, which encompasses Hong Kong, Macau and much of Guangdong, has a history of producing many of the world's biggest pandemics, including some of the most virulent strains of influenza to sweep the world in the 20th century.

There's evidence of a growing disease burden and there was the big Zika pandemic that stripped through the Americas recently and the rest of the world.

LONDON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The world's biggest funder of the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria said on Thursday it needs $15 billion over the next three years to begin bringing "the three big global pandemics" under control.

1, 2 The big influenza pandemics that caused huge death tolls in 1918 , 1957 1968 high morbidity in 2009 are still fresh in memory.