At one stage, the plague threatened to cause an epidemic of people standing on chairs and looking worried, but it seems to have since subsided.
Scientists often use the term "R0" as a statistical way to monitor an epidemic, with "R" standing for the reproductive number of an infectious disease agent.
The WHO should instead have a standing emergency committee to declare that an epidemic poses an international risk, which must be transparent and protected from political pressures, the report says.
So, here I am, standing up to face the empty bed epidemic.
The salt level in Egypt's precious soil is rising steadily, groundwater is threatened and there is an epidemic of bilharzia, a nasty, chronic illness caused by a parasitic worm that loves dirty, standing water.
The audience gave Clinton several standing ovations, and policy leaders, HIV/AIDS advocates, and nongovernmental organizations that focus on the epidemic praised what several called her "bold" vision about applying recent prevention advances.
It was standing room only when a medical expert detailed the history of big pharma and the epidemic.
Players are protected to a degree by standing behind the mountains of loudspeakers, but their fans by the thousands have fallen to the epidemic of hearing loss among the young.
Your cultural beliefs — or this stranger who's standing there saying, 'Take this pill?"' As AIDS passes the quarter-century mark, in several countries the epidemic appears to be declining.
