Sentence examples for epidemic about from inspiring English sources

Now, because of the childhood obesity epidemic, about a quarter of newly diagnosed children have type-2 diabetes.

At the height of the epidemic, about 2,800 US military personnel were deployed to fight Ebola ; roughly 100 would remain to help, the administration said.

A Mississippi surgeon described his visit to a makeshift hospital during one measles epidemic: "About one hundred sick men crowded in a room sixty by one hundred feet in all stages of measles.

The shift in strategy is born out of a stark reality, officials said: two decades into the AIDS epidemic, about four out of five people who are infected in low- to middle-income nations do not know that they carry H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.

It appears that the tribe suffered from a measles epidemic about the time they were being visited by Napoleon Chagnon, a respected French anthropologist, and a colleague of his named James Neel.

After they lost that case, they said that there was a TB epidemic about to break out, which turned out not to be the case.

However, the HIV/AIDS epidemic brought about huge demands for care and massive patient loads in the public-sector.

During two influenza epidemics, about 75,000 primary care patients recommended for influenza vaccination are included.

Today, rabies is regarded as endemic among the red fox and the arctic fox in northern and western areas of Alaska, with a cyclic occurrence of epidemics about every 3 4 years [ 39, 18].

These results show that the majority of papers published in 2014 were either about the West Africa epidemic or about general preparedness topics.

The epidemic continued for about 11 days.