Sentence examples for disease widespread from inspiring English sources

Dutch elm disease, widespread fungoid killer of elms, first described in the Netherlands.

But, largely as a result of a mismanaged government inoculation campaign in the 1980s to eradicate bilharzia, another chronic disease widespread in Egypt at the time, the country's hepatitis C rate is four times higher than in any other country.

No precise casualty figures exist, but the janjaweed militias sponsored by the Sudanese government are reported to have killed hundreds of thousands of people, raped a great many of the women they left alive, and driven some two million from their homes to live and to be hunted in desert refugee camps, where potable water is scarce and disease widespread.

No precise casualty figures exist, but the janjaweed militias sponsored by the Sudanese government are reported to have killed hundreds of thousands of people, raped a great many of the women they left alive, and driven some two million from their homes to live — and to be hunted — in desert refugee camps, where potable water is scarce and disease widespread.

Following the eruption an estimated further 49,000 fatalities occurred throughout Sumbawa, Lombok and surrounding islands through the indirect causes of famine and disease; widespread crop failure and famine was also reported across Europe, North America and Asia (Oppenheimer, 2003).

Migraine can be classified among cephalalgias, a kind of disease widespread in the population: the percentages of the adult population with active headache disorders are, globally, 46% for headache in general, 11% for migraine, 42% for tension-type headache and 3% for chronic daily headache [25].

It cited the rapid increase in drug use, high levels of sexually transmitted diseases, widespread prostitution and a population with more than half its people under 25.

Recent reports accused president Robert Mugabe of stealing over $7 million in foreign aid meant for the distribution of medicine to combat, among other diseases, widespread malaria in the region.

These networks allow a picture to be drawn of diseases widespread in the general population, usually not leading to hospitalisation, and estimating trends in, for example, the prevalence of diabetes.

The need for new treatments for the neglected tropical diseases African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis remains urgent with the diseases widespread in tropical regions, affecting the world's very poorest.

"Cervical cancer is a highly curable disease -- widespread Pap smear testing detects the cancers early -- and American doctors have viewed radical trachelectomy as playing with fire," Dr. Roman said.