Sentence examples for epidemic tendency from inspiring English sources

The epidemic tendency of this infection is likely to reside in its vector transmission, with waves of clothing lice fleeing febrile patients and thus facilitating epidemic transmission.

They intervene when epidemic tendencies demand.

The important role of injecting drug use in several regional HIV epidemics, and the tendency for HIV incidence to escalate rapidly once prevalence reaches a critical threshold, generally believed to be 5% [ 41], underscores the need for rapid, simultaneous scale-up of effective interventions.

It is possible that one of the causes of the autism epidemic is the growing tendency for successful men to be attracted to and have children with powerful, assertive and intelligent females.

The Chinese Huangdi Neijing (The Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor) dating from ~300 BCE - 200 CE apparently refers to repeated paroxysmal fevers associated with enlarged spleens and a tendency to epidemic occurrence.

Therefore, there is a tendency that the epidemic in school children develops "independently" of how the epidemic develops in the other age groups, and school closure has only small impact on the disease burden in the population that is not directly affected by the intervention.

It is for this reason that the twin forces of romance and the smoking ban have conspired to produce the modern epidemic of Lovers' Lung – the tendency for two smokers, wishing to know one another biblically, to consume far more cigarettes than usual as an excuse to spend time alone.

An np-trend test was performed to examine the tendency of the epidemic from 2008 to 2012 using Stata 10 software (Stata Corporation).

It is also possible that countries in stage I of the smoking epidemic model have a higher tendency to support smoke-free legislation but not enforcement compared with those of stage IV, where passage of laws are very much likely to be adhered to.

We believe this finding may indicate the generalization tendencies of HIV epidemic.

This article (via the Poetry Foundation) explains the sexting epidemic thusly: "It's just a version of the human tendency to show off the same tendency that makes poets write poetry, painters paint or adults have themselves photographed throwing back glasses of wine on holidays".