Sentence examples for devastating outbreak from inspiring English sources

In response to the "devastating outbreak" of Ebola in West Africa, U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins has announced "extraordinary measures to accelerate the pace of vaccine clinical trials".

"A devastating outbreak of Ebola virus disease is clearly not the ideal situation for doing a vaccine trial.

— Nearly a week after the devastating outbreak of tornadoes, it is still not clear what the wind wrought.

Especially when you consider that they are in a city near Seoul that has suddenly become ground zero for a devastating outbreak of avian flu.

He marched with a large force to Rome, but a devastating outbreak of malaria among his troops while in the city put an end to the emperor's plans.

Within a few months of their arrival, a devastating outbreak of yellow fever swept through the veteran French soldiers, killing more than 27,000.

If the wrong choices are made, microbes that have lurked on and around us for years can suddenly cause devastating outbreaks.

Aid agencies and the United Nations warned on Friday that the disaster was still mounting, with devastating outbreaks of water-borne disease an additional likelihood.

In the first two decades of the last century, they noted, there were repeated and devastating outbreaks of the disease, which was likely transmitted when garbage from oceanliners were fed to pigs as food.

In the early part of the 21st century, devastating outbreaks continued in Africa's meningitis belt, leading to campaigns for the development of new and effective vaccines and treatments.

The effects of this atavistic war are still being tallied: in Iraq, we would have to include civilian deaths estimated at possibly hundreds of thousands, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, and devastating outbreaks of sectarian violence of a kind that, as we should have learned from the dissolution of Yugoslavia, can readily follow the death or removal of a nationalist dictator.