Sentence examples for epidemic causing from inspiring English sources

Mr Miliband said they were "spreading like an epidemic" causing "debt and misery" and acting as a magnet for crime and anti-social behaviour.

First, the international community is not yet doing enough to stem the tide of the epidemic, causing devastating heartbreak to countless families and allowing a global threat to metastasize.

Obesity is becoming a global epidemic, causing a sharp rise in many chronic diseases including diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension (7).

In this case, the highly cautious risk attitude leads to a limited but long epidemic causing large losses in contact numbers as individuals repeatedly respond to the threat.

The causative agent was found to be the Norwalk virus and the epidemic caused major economic difficulties to the oyster farming industry in the country.

And Mr. Holder recalled the years when the crack epidemic caused a crisis of crime and corruption in the United States.

"Strangely, this relationship between huge death rates in an epidemic caused by governmental and familial neglect, and the material process of gentrification is rarely recognized.

These are some of them: Closing schools to slow the spread of the epidemic caused confusion and frustrated parents and their employers.

France went from 40 cases in 2007 to 15,000 in 2011, an epidemic caused by parents failing to have their children jabbed.

A smaller epidemic caused by HIV-2, a virus that comes originally from a monkey called the sooty mangabey, is raging in West Africa.

Our obesity epidemic causes debilitating illness, life threatening diseases and misery for millions of people.