Sentence examples for epidemics strike from inspiring English sources

"If we are to avoid repeating the same mistake, we must create a new 'business as usual' where clinical research is done in the context of epidemics and the necessary preparations for this are done before epidemics strike".

In the early fall of 1918 when he was six the influenza epidemic struck the city.

That could turn out to be handy when the next epidemic strikes.

During the late 1840s, a cholera epidemic struck the Lower Mississippi Valley, killing thousands of blacks and whites.

The health system was already in collapse when the cholera epidemic struck.

A small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck.

This year, after the SARS epidemic struck China, FIFA, soccer's world governing body, decided to move the competition from China.

Dr. Hughes said it was only a matter of time until another deadly flu epidemic struck the world.

Two weeks later, the second wave of the epidemic struck, this time with children making up 30percentto40percentcent of the infections.

With subsequent canal and railroad construction, prosperity returned until a yellow-fever epidemic struck in 1855 and killed 10 percent of the population.

When an epidemic struck, what researchers generally did was go to electron microscopes and try to figure out what they were seeing.