Sentence examples for fewer epidemics from inspiring English sources

The justice secretary appears unmoved.There are no professional witch-finders or catch-22 dunkings in modern Britain; there are fewer epidemics or livestock blights of the kind that fuelled the bloodlust of the witch-hunts.

35 These urban rural differences also parallel US experience in the First World War: army camps composed of city-bred recruits had far fewer epidemics than those camps drawing from sparsely settled states.

Without a vaccine, few epidemics can be controlled by treatment or prevention alone, Dr. Casabona said at the closing news conference.

Marburg virus is not widely known, and there were very few epidemics in the world so far.

Few epidemics in human history have caused a sudden doubling in all-cause mortality in a particular population, sustained over a decade.

Finally, we identified a cryptic outbreak in the ICU caused by L. anisa, a pathogen commonly encountered in the environment (32, 33 ), only implicated in a few epidemics of Pontiac fever (34, 35 ) and four cases of legionellosis (26, 36 – 36 ).

A few epidemic clones are responsible for the apparently endemic occurrence of shigellosis in Tehran, Iran.

A few epidemic lineages of A. baumannii have been considered to be responsible for the majority of the hospital outbreaks worldwide, primarily the three international clonal lineages (ICLs) designated as ICL-I, ICL-II and ICL-III [ 7].

Because a few Epidemic Kerato-conjunctivitis (EKC) epidemics have been documented in study NICUs [ 26], we diagnosed most patients who have pathogens cultured from purulent exudates from the conjunctiva or redness with purulent exudates as conjunctivitis based to the NNIS definition [ 21].

More adults may have been affected because fewer dengue epidemics, and therefore fewer exposures to dengue viruses during childhood, had occurred; subsequently, the immune status in adults had changed.

Although there have likely been a few highland epidemics since the 1940s, only 1 report in 1991 documented the presence of An. pseudopunctipennis mosquitoes in river-associated habitats of Guayllabamba (28 ).