Diseases that cause a visible impact through dramatic epidemics, such as measles, cholera, dysentery and malaria [ 3], are usually considered the top threats during humanitarian relief operations.
41– 51 Reports of cases of dengue fever in Africa have increased over the past two decades, although the dramatic epidemics seen in other parts of the world have not occurred.
In east Africa, RVF has been reported in arid and semiarid areas in the form of sudden and dramatic epidemics at intervals of approximately 10 years associated with widespread flooding and the resultant swarms of mosquitoes.
Thus, in the present study, we report on the prevalence of the aforementioned pathogens and we describe a dramatic FeLV epidemic, which most likely led to the death of 6 Iberian lynxes within a 6-months period in 2007, its possible origin, and its relationship to other infectious agents.
During the dramatic morbilliviral epidemic in the Mediterranean Sea from 1990 to 1992, coinfection with T. gondii, an opportunistic pathogen for cetaceans, was reported in striped dolphins [ 14].
The dramatic ongoing epidemic of chikungunya infection in the southwestern part of the Indian Ocean, particularly Reunion Island, provided the opportunity to describe the skin manifestations of this infection among travelers.
The results from this agent model highlight the importance of flight as a topic for research even a small amount of flight can have a dramatic impact on epidemic dynamics.
The cumulative effect of these developments has been a dramatic reduction in epidemic and communicable diseases.
© Malcolm Gladwell, 2000 For Hush Puppies, the Tipping Point - that one dramatic moment in an epidemic, when everything can change all at once - came somewhere between late 1994 and early 1995.
