Sentence examples for devastating outbreaks from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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.

Chan is used to crises; as Hong Kong, China's Director of Health, she fought devastating outbreaks of bird flu and SARS before taking WHO's top job in 2006.

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".

Devastating ASF outbreaks and continuing epidemic in the Caucasus region and Russia (2007 to date) highlight significance of this disease threat.

They were the source for devastating distemper outbreaks in lions in the Serengeti (13 ), and lice of presumed dog origin are causing serious disease in Alaskan wolf populations (K.B. Beckmen, pers. comm).. Neospora caninum detected in this study may be a new parasite in this ecosystem with potentially serious consequences for wildlife.

The global trade in plants and plant products has inevitably led to dissemination of plants' microscopic associates and has been repeatedly accompanied by devastating disease outbreaks in natural systems (Anderson et al. 2004; Desprez-Loustau et al. 2007; Brasier 2008; Loo 2009).

Some of the first areas to be mapped by MapSwipe users include Jonglei state in South Sudan – a volatile area where clashes between rival groups are frequent – and the border regions of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, which were all affected by the devastating Ebola outbreak.