Sentence examples for epidemics from inspiring English sources

The Millennium Development Goals cover issues like eradicating extreme poverty, fighting disease epidemics and promoting gender equality – but do not include goals for improving the lives of people with disabilities.

The summit is also expected to discuss the possible renewal of sanctions against Russia (which was refused an invitation to what would have been a G8 summit over its involvement in Ukraine), funding for programmes to combat medical epidemics such as Ebola, and the risk of a Greek exit from the euro.

And that's without mentioning defence policy, epidemics, climate change and the Islamic world.

Refuse and excrement littered the streets and the subsequent epidemics were widespread.

"Natural and man-made disasters [including health epidemics like Ebola] require a fundamental understanding of the urban dynamic that I don't think NGOs have really come to terms with yet".

Does he not know that froggies, pegging-out world-wide from fungus epidemics, are the pit canaries of the planet?

The Ebola outbreak snaps the need for Cuba's approach into sharp relief: only a coordinated response, provided by well-trained and - equipped primary healthcare professionals will contain this – and future – epidemics.

It acknowledges that the decline in heroin use has been faster in areas where the heroin epidemics first took hold, such London and the north-west, but slower in north-east England.

Crowded slums were fertile soil for crime and epidemics; filthy air and water afflicted rich and poor alike.

To spare Yambuku from infamy, they named the infection after a local river, the Ebola.The next 36 years saw about 20 Ebola epidemics.

Terrorists, epidemics and recessions have deterred travellers.