"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 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, epidemic HIV crossed to humans after the 18th century (Table 1).
Although a heavy focus on compliance without case detection will not stem the general epidemic of drug susceptible TB, it will keep MDR-TB in check as shown in the bars along the left edge of Figure 4.
After 1998, the general epidemic rates have rapidly decreased, benefited from the government's prohibition of using paid blood donors.
In general, epidemic activity of arbovirus is more often observed in temperate areas with heavy rainfall, flooding, or high tides, whereas in tropical Australia transmission occurs throughout the year (Russell 2002).
We applied the theory of moments of martingales to a general epidemic model informed by surveillance data from each infected flock included in the dataset (see section #3 in Additional file 1).
