Sentence examples for epidemic illness from inspiring English sources

Livre CGT, the French union, called the free paper "an epidemic illness of liberalism that requires an emergency vaccination".

Noroviruses (NoVs) are non-enveloped, single-stranded RNA viruses that cause both sporadic and epidemic illness.

An epidemic illness characterized by head nodding associated with onchocerciasis has been described in eastern Africa since the early 1960s; we summarize published reports and recent studies.

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease of global importance (1– 5) that occurs in both urban and rural settings (2, 6– 8) and causes both endemic and epidemic illness, including pulmonary hemorrhage and death (7, 9– 11).

We assume that the antibodies detected in Tanzania in this study were caused by R. typhi, because, to our knowledge, no severe or epidemic illness compatible with louse-borne typhus has been described in the study region.

Moreover, as Littré saw this collection of illnesses as a single disease, he essentially turned it into an epidemic, probably because he had the modern sense of the term in mind and thought that Hippocrates had observed and described an epidemic illness unknown to modern medicine (5 ).

Doctors had come to understand the germ theory of infectious disease and had witnessed the decline of epidemic illnesses like cholera.

Also discussed are insights relevant to pseudoneurological symptoms and to the forthcoming Dissociative-Conversive disorders category in DSM-V, including what the author terms fright-triggered acute pseudo-localized symptoms (i.e., pseudoparalysis, pseudocerebellar imbalance, psychogenic blindness, pseudoseizures, and epidemic sociogenic illness).

An international leader in advancing global health, she has been a major force in the response to emerging disease threats including obesity, the chronic disease epidemic, mental illness, cancer, AIDS, suicide and violence prevention, pandemic flu, and bioterrorism.

Although Haff disease is traditionally an epidemic foodborne illness, these six cases occurred in two clusters and as one sporadic case.

In summary, the DWG has found that delivering high-quality, guideline-based diabetes care is unrealistic given the current care and payment paradigms and proposes alternative approaches that may mitigate the increasing medical and financial burdens of this epidemic chronic illness.