Fukuda thought that only drastic measures would stop an epidemic, and he said so.
The epidemic calls for drastic measures.
In the absence of vaccines or treatments for the three diseases, public health officials are taking drastic steps to slow the epidemics.
During Dr. Gayle's tenure at the agency, the AIDS epidemic has gone through drastic shifts, and the methods, and messages, of prevention have evolved.
Dr. Khaw urged Singapore, which suffered a drastic economic downturn because of the three-month epidemic earlier this year, not to be alarmed.
In the face of this epidemic, angry and fear can inspire drastic action.
The disease is endemic on the African continent while, in other parts of the world where severe epidemics occurred in the past, a drastic decimation of the cattle population was realized and as consequence the disease was successfully eradicated [1].
Some regions, notwithstanding the drastic reductions suffered by rabbit populations after a first epidemic, have seen a decline in the initially high virulence of RHDV and this has enabled populations to gradually recover [ 15, 26].
During the SARS epidemic, many shops, restaurants and retailers closed or suffered drastic losses in business, especially in the consumer hubs of Beijing and Guangzhou.
The drastic reduction in specific control activities at a time when the epidemic was spreading, in the context of overall collapse of the Congolese health infrastructure, most likely contributed to the exponential rise in HAT cases after 1990.
