Sentence examples for epidemics swept from inspiring English sources

In 1519 and 1520, before the arrival of the Spanish in the region, a number of epidemics swept through southern Guatemala.

Serological analyses indicated that at least five "silent" CDV epidemics swept through the same two lion populations between 1976 and 2006 without clinical signs or measurable mortality, indicating that CDV was not necessarily fatal.

Edhi's charitable activities expanded in 1957 when an Asian flu epidemic swept through Karachi.

Ten years ago, that epidemic swept across the world, killing 775 people.

Not long after, another disaster struck: a cholera epidemic swept through Diyarbakir, killing Khatchadour and two of his children.

While he was studying exchange rates, a crack epidemic swept through Mott Haven, taking many of Mr. Jones's former friends with it.

As news of a looming Zika epidemic swept through the media this winter, Barouch approached Peter Abbink and Rafael Larocca, two researchers in his lab.

Twenty-five yeago ago, when a doctor named Robert Ross was the deputy health commissioner of Philadelphia, a measles epidemic swept the country.

By Margaret Talbot Twenty-five yeago ago, when a doctor named Robert Ross was the deputy health commissioner of Philadelphia, a measles epidemic swept the country.

Dengue fever, relatively unknown in the West until the 1970's, when an epidemic swept through Cuba and other Caribbean countries, produces a spectrum of symptoms, the worst of which is fatal hemorrhagic fever.

In struggling to fathom how this epidemic swept into Utah's middle-class homes, a far cry from the popular image of drug users as down-and-outs, families grappling with the crisis first blame pharmaceutical companies and then doctors.