We have epidemic numbers of children with learning, behavioral and respiratory problems.
That's especially true for children, who are gaining weight in epidemic numbers, particularly in minority communities.
Soldier suicides have reached epidemic numbers.
Gay men and drug users are dying in epidemic numbers, their government will not even say the name of the disease killing them, and the pharmaceutical companies are saying any treatment will be decades away.
Even though opiate addiction has grown to epidemic numbers, alcohol and other drugs still kill more people than opiates do—in auto accidents, suicides, and liver diseases caused by addiction.
They blithely claim that autism has always been with us, in the same epidemic numbers we see today, (If you're the parent of a young boy in New Jersey, by the way, you now face 1-in-60 odds of a diagnosis), we just never noticed, or else counted those kids as "quirky," or possibly retarded.
In an age of almost epidemic numbers of people suffering from diseases and physical ailments related to obesity or not being at their optimal weight, the more opportunities for kids to be healthy and fit, the better it is for all.
Kidney diseases affect epidemic numbers worldwide and have risen in incidence over recent years, thus representing a burgeoning global healthcare burden [ 1, 2].
Elevated soil P and N levels, coupled with clearance of native timber, resulted in epidemic numbers of native scarabs, particularly Christmas beetles (Anoplognathus spp., Scarabeidae).
