Sentence examples for great epidemics from inspiring English sources

"The draft riots, great fires and great epidemics.

Today road accidents correspond to the great epidemics of tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, and neurological illnesses like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

In New York City, the drop in the daily hospital census was accelerated by the ebbing of three great epidemics: AIDS, crack cocaine and violent crime.

I am much inclined to believe that such mechanisms would explain how smallpox, syphilis, plague, yellow fever, etc. have come about in the course of time, and how certain great epidemics appear once in a while.

Gives history of the disease-the oldest & most dangerous of the great epidemic diseases & recent cases of it.

Yellow fever, acute infectious disease, one of the great epidemic diseases of the tropical world, though it sometimes has occurred in temperate zones as well.

The tentative conclusion is that venereal syphilis did not occur in Denmark before the great epidemic, but it cannot be excluded that another treponemal strain was present in Denmark prior to 1493.

During spring 2011, a great epidemic of entero-hemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) associated HUS occurred in Germany, providing clinicians the opportunity to examine the relevance of antibiotic prophylaxis, plasma exchange and eculizumab in EHEC-associated HUS.

Since then, they've been feared for spreading a mind-bogglingly vast array of illnesses, like rat-bite fever, cryptosporidiosis, viral hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, and, of course, the plague, by far the most horrifying of the great epidemic diseases.

Baseball is just one riveting 30 minutes out of a 48-lecture course beginning with America's Great Epidemic of 1617 and ending with The Age of Terror and the 911 Attacks.

However, a great epidemic that entered China through the northwest in 1641 ravaged the densely populated areas along the Grand Canal; a gazetteer in northern Zhejiang noted more than half the population fell ill that year and that 90% of the local populace in one area was dead by 1642.