Sentence examples for counter epidemic from inspiring English sources

(d) Public authorities are obliged to counter epidemic diseases and prevent potentially health-threatening outcomes of environmental degradation.

Coast-to-coast polio drive to counter epidemic in Africa DAKAR/HARARE/GENEVA/EVANSTON, 25 February 2005 – A mass polio immunization drive starting today across Africa gained greater urgency from reports that a child has contracted polio in Ethiopia, the first case there in four years.

Countries will be expected to strengthen their health, education and legal systems to counter the epidemic.

Less than half of the $5.1bn pledged to counter the epidemic has so far been disbursed.

Of course, to counter this epidemic of situational thinking, we need more and better regulations, but we also need more people behaving better.

A sudden demand for protective services nearly always leads to a diversion of resources, said Kevin Hutchinson, the health director in St. Clair County, Ill., which spent $3 million last year to counter an epidemic of West Nile virus.

Nutritionists and health-conscious parents applauded when last year the Department of Agriculture finally set new standards for the nation's school lunches in an effort to foster good health and counter the epidemic of obesity afflicting youngsters.

A thorough understanding of fat cell biology is necessary to counter the epidemic of obesity.

This facilitates a rapid public health response to counter possible epidemics.

It's a public health measure, his lieutenants said — you know, to counter the obesity epidemic.

No one concerned to counter the H.I.V./AIDS epidemic, especially among the poor, and in the less developed world, dares dismiss the protection offered by the female condom.