Sentence examples for deadly epidemics from inspiring English sources

Thomas Nast's 1881 engraving for Harper's Weekly, "A Warning Light," made when a rash of deadly epidemics seized New York, shows a skeletal Liberty with an upside-down torch and the caption "Leave All Hope Ye That Enter Here".

Now the call for concealment is falling on one of the hottest of contemporary fields — virology, where researchers are tinkering with the fundamentals of life to better understand whether altered flu germs might set off deadly epidemics.

The mysterious pneumonia that is quickly spreading worldwide teaches us that in an era of globalization, when increased international travel and interpersonal exchanges also facilitate the dissemination of diseases, there can be no "weakest link" in international cooperation to stem deadly epidemics.

The potential of SARS to seed itself rapidly around the world and touch off a chain reaction of deadly epidemics galvanized the World Health Organization to start an international collaboration to identify the cause of the disease and to try to develop ways to diagnose, contain, treat and prevent it.

Dr. Young represents the surging interest of young Americans in combating the deadly epidemics ravaging the world's poorest countries, fueled in part by the billions of dollars that the American government, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other organizations have poured into international health in recent years.

New research suggests that an inexpensive cholera vaccine may help prevent deadly epidemics like the one that ravaged Haiti in 2010, The New York Times reports.

Freetown, Sierra Leone, doesn't look like a city overtaken by a terrifying and deadly epidemic.

They were like tombstones for the doomed residents of a town confronting a deadly epidemic.

The plaque, he recalled, said that there had been a deadly epidemic in the city.

Li Rong, his brother, said he understood the impulse to hold an individual responsible for the deadly epidemic.

It is irresponsible and reckless to mock efforts to stave off a deadly epidemic for partisan political gains.