Sentence examples for creates epidemics from inspiring English sources

PPR is a contagious viral disease primarily affecting goats and sheep and creates epidemics that can cause mortality rates as high as 90% in immunologically naive sheep and goat populations, resulting in significant negative socio-economic impacts (Munir et al. 2013).

So many pharmaceutical companies in Asia are racing to produce anti-H.I.V. drugs, a leading AIDS organization is warning, that, on the continent, where the infection is rapidly spreading, widespread misuse could create epidemics from drug-resistant strains of the virus.

As influenza is caused by a variety of species and strains of viruses, in any given year some strains can die out while others create epidemics, while yet another strain can cause a pandemic.

Only those simulations that created epidemics (defined as greater than 1 percent of the population infected) were used in analysis of outcomes.

Increased mobility and rapid urbanization is a known risk factor for acceleration of HIV transmission, creating epidemics in central cities before spreading out to more peripheral regions [32].

From there, Vancouver's approach to housing its low-income residents begins to play a role in creating epidemic conditions, according to Kerr.

A large pool of susceptible persons creates an epidemic potential, as demonstrated by the last diphtheria epidemic that occurred in the early 1990s in the countries of the former Soviet Union when more than 50 000 cases were recorded at the peak of the epidemic.

This is of great concern as such a high percentage without a protective level of anti-diphtheria antibodies creates an epidemic potential.

Allen J. Frances, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University who has worked on the D.S.M., has said that the new definitions amount to "the medicalization of everyday behavior" and will create "false epidemics".

The gambling industry has created an epidemic of addiction.

It is creating an epidemic in our state".