Sentence examples for epidemic documents from inspiring English sources

The United Nations' latest annual report on the international AIDS epidemic documents alarming trends and puts to shame the world's inadequate response.

Myanmar is experiencing an HIV epidemic documented since the late 1980s.

The first leptospirosis epidemic documented in California sea lions was in 1970, and Leptospira interrogans serovar Pomona was isolated from infected sea lions [ 15, 16].

The disease was first reported from Southern Sudan in 1904, and the first epidemic was documented in 1940 with a death rate of 80% (7 ).

Studies in the Fort Monmouth epidemic also documented, by serial bacterial cultures, for the first time the long suspected relationship of influenza to group A streptococcal carriage and disease (23 ).

In Puerto Rico (PR), despite the HIV epidemic and documented high-risk sexual practices in population-based studies [ 18, 19], there is limited epidemiological and behavioral research on knowledge of HPV infection, particularly among high-risk groups; this may delay the development of effective interventions to reduce the burden of HPV infection.

No HEV epidemics were documented in the CAR before 2001, although HEV antibodies were detected in 24% of young sexually active adults [ 24].

In China, EV71-associated epidemics were documented in many provinces from March to August 2008, with about 490,000 HFMD cases, including 126 fatalities reported in 2008 [ 15].

Disruptions in water and sanitation infrastructure after disasters (mainly flooding and cyclones) and overcrowding and precarious conditions caused by large population displacements may create an environment conducive to cholera's rapid spread (6 – 9 ), although 1 report documents epidemic risk to be small after geophysical disasters (10 ).

The epidemic was first documented in 1956, when government health officials had an autopsy performed on Tom Van Arsdale, a fifty-one-year-old miner.

In 1564, renowned Italian physician Gabriele Falloppio wrote about the syphilis epidemic of 1490, documenting the use of condoms.