The emergence of the Flood on the ringworld Halo prompts Halo's resident artificial intelligence 343 Guilty Spark to enlist the help of the Master Chief in activating Halo's defenses and preventing a Flood outbreak.
Although an identity module is required for an artificial intelligence to operate, it may occasionally lead to complications – for example, as a Monitor, the containment of a Flood outbreak assumes the highest priority; however, in a moment of humanity, he prioritised the conservation of the replacement Installation, willing to risk containment.
He's survived more infectious Flood outbreaks, greased more Covenant bad guys, and earned more medals than any other twenty soldiers.
Battling the Flood, Covenant, and human forces are the Sentinels: robotic drones designed by an extinct race called the Forerunners to protect their structures and prevent Flood outbreaks.
In early 2007, UNICEF and key partners contained a major post-flood outbreak of cholera by providing local communities and health centres with 35 cholera kits and over 1.5 million sachets of oral rehydration salts to treat diarrhoea.
This ambitious fund, paired with sufficient capital, will be a first crack at bucking the trend in the growing number of refugees, displaced persons and children locked out of opportunity during circumstances beyond their control - whether earthquakes, floods, outbreaks or armed conflict.
Prior to Long, peasant uprisings with religious themes had always been preceded by floods, outbreaks of disease, famine, crop failure or other natural phenomena, as sections of the rural populace attributed such disasters to the wrath of the heavens and sought help from leaders who purported to have supernatural powers.
Droughts, floods and outbreaks of infectious diseases plagued villages across Africa.
It was the latest in a string of disasters to hit Indonesia, including the December 2004 tsunami, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods and outbreaks of bird flu.
With flooding comes outbreaks of infectious diseases such as cholera, measles, meningitis and polio.
During 2002-2006, there were many emergency situations, due to conflict, natural disasters such as flooding, disease outbreaks, and Darfur crisis.
