Sentence examples for epidemic from inspiring English sources

Better contact-tracing is vital to end the epidemic altogether.

More than 22,000 Ebola cases have been reported since the start of the epidemic.

In the early 2000s, pharmaceutical companies were high on activists' hit lists, prompted by Big Pharma's ill-advised attempt to sue the South African government for patent infringement on HIV drugs; an attempt to deal with the country's epidemic by allowing cheaper, generic copies to be sold.

"The Ebola epidemic in western Africa overwhelmed fragile health systems, killed thousands of people, and highlighted major inadequacies in our ability to respond to global public health emergencies," said Amy Gutmann, the commission chair.

In many ways brain injury is a silent epidemic; its effects are not always visible and cannot be communicated easily.

The epidemic drained the health system of resources to deal with other medical issues, which can be devastating to people living on the economic edge.

By the end of the epidemic in the summer of 2003, 8,096 people had been infected and 774 had died.

A DfID spokesman said: "The UK is the largest bilateral donor to Sierra Leone and our action in response to this unprecedented Ebola epidemic is already having a significant impact.