Sentence examples for epidemics i from inspiring English sources

But as a medical student working in the ER at the height of both the crack and Aids epidemics, I discovered a very different America from the one in my dreams.

This study showed a high level of correlation in the amplitude of influenza epidemics (i.e., peaks in rates were similar) in the 3 Italian regions during a 32-year period spanning epidemic and pandemic seasons.

The World Health Organization recommends an 'opt-out' approach to PITC in generalised HIV epidemics (i.e. where antenatal HIV prevalence exceeds 1%), which not only obliges health care workers to offer HIV testing to every patient, but also incorporates the informed right of the patient to decline the recommendation of an HIV test [ 7].

We have tested the "static" protection assumption by setting the total population to several initial values less than the real population (see also the case a) of Hong-Kong simulations below) but the fit quality was generally less satisfactory than in the case of the co-existing epidemics (i.e. "dynamic" effect) ; more testing is needed to fully certify this conclusion.

For each of the resulting smallpox parameter sets using 100 stochastic simulations per set, we determined the daily ring vaccination/case tracking capacity needed to contain all simulated smallpox epidemics (i.e., keep the total number of cases below 500 within 250 days).

"If I was going to kiss you before the epidemic, I will kiss you now," said Somers Farkas, a philanthropist.

Many years later, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, I learned that he had committed suicide.

In a nation where Type 2 diabetes is epidemic (I have it, and no, I don't drink soda), there are some public health concerns at issue here.

In an attempt to contain this epidemic, I wish to publicise my own personal prevention strategy, which offers complete protection: I haven't answered my landline in six years.

For the first time during this epidemic I think we will look on the last week as the week we put in place the jigsaw puzzle that changes the epidemic".

"I tend to go toward things that make me afraid," Mr. Mantello said, "so as a young gay man in New York at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic I had to go toward it.