Sentence examples for disease hit from inspiring English sources

The disease hit hardest in the poorest neighborhoods, particularly the slum known as Five Points, where African-Americans and immigrant Irish Catholics were crowded in squalor and stench.

The disease hit me when I was 12 and plagued me, off and on, throughout my teens, making every day a surprising and mortifying adventure.

Last year, California experienced its worst outbreak of whooping cough in more than 60 years, and the disease hit hardest in an unexpected place: bucolic Marin County.

This year, the disease hit hard still farther west, in relatively thinly populated states like South Dakota, Nebraska and, hardest of all, Colorado, which has had more than 1,500 diagnosed cases, 27 of them fatal.

Gerald Celente, editor of the newsletter Trends, said that "eco-friendly is going to be a huge business, particularly when outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease and mad cow disease hit us".

The recovery programme has been working with captive breeding projects in four zoos and in-situ conservation since the disease hit and next steps include plans for semi-wild enclosures where they can test the ability of captive-bred frogs to fight the disease in carefully controlled conditions.

There's another feature that the more the number of repeats, the sooner the disease hits.

The disease hits India every year, but usually in the drier months of October-December and causes fewer deaths.

Because the disease hits some families harder, a genetic propensity to get it has been long suspected.

And the bump in coverage caused by the diagnosis in Texas has been more about the disease hitting the U.S. than about the thousands dying in Africa.

Pharmaceutical companies aren't interested because the disease hits people who couldn't pay for a drug if there was one".