Sentence examples for general epidemic from inspiring English sources

"I think the Middle East is part of a more general epidemic – it's happening in the Ukraine, in north Africa.

The former minister of health in former President Thabo Mbeki's cabinet, Manto Tshabala-Msimang, was appointed for being a long-time Mbeki confidante rather than for her ability to deal with a general epidemic: she was an Aids denialist.

Many epidemiologists say that when more than 1percentt of a country's population is living with H.I.V., the country is in a general epidemic that is much harder to stop than if the prevalence is less than one percent, Ms. Cravero said.

Even for diseases in which it may protect individuals, isolation will often have little effect on the general epidemic; this may be, as in measles, because infectivity precedes the appearance of the characteristic feature, the rash, by a few days or, as in polio infections, because a number of persons are carriers, harbouring the disease agent without discernible illness.

Even for diseases in which it may protect individuals, isolation will often have little effect on the general epidemic; this may be, as in measles, because infectivity precedes the appearance of the characteristic feature, the rash, by a few days, or, as in polio virus infections, because a number of persons are carriers, harbouring the disease agent without discernible illness.

In general, epidemic routing adopts the 2-hop or multi-hop forwarding mode to forward the relay packet.

In general, epidemics follow an S-curve (see the S-curve on the left in Figure 1).

This is in stark contrast to generalized epidemic settings, where general population testing campaigns may be a cost-effective option [ 13– 15].

ChiCTRTRC13004024 Diabetes has become a worldwide epidemic in the general population.

As mentioned earlier, the Caribbean is the only region of the world that has a robust heterosexually-driven epidemic of subtype B. In Thailand, South Africa and Argentina, concentrated epidemics in high risk populations preceded generalized epidemics in the general public.

Whereas national population surveys are considered the gold standard for measuring HIV prevalence levels in the general population, particularly in generalized epidemics, the substantial technical and financial resources they require can limit their usefulness for monitoring trends [ 13].