Sentence examples for human epidemics from inspiring English sources

They're trying to solve one of science's great mysteries: where does Ebola hide between human epidemics?

Shiva belongs to a colony of monkeys who have been fattened up to help scientists study the twin human epidemics of obesity and diabetes.

But Dr. Vredenburg's research showed that chytrid spreads in a linear wave across the landscape, an infection pattern like that of human epidemics.

No recent outbreak of avian influenza has resulted in human epidemics (though, since 1997, five avian outbreaks have infected a few people by direct transmission from birds).

The report gave the same odds that some food- and water-borne diseases would also increase among susceptible populations, but said "major human epidemics" were unlikely as long as public-health systems remained effective.

The worrisome thing about H5 is that H5 viruses are avian flus and have not been known to cause human epidemics, so many people may have little or no resistance to them.

That area has not had heavy hunting, but it had four human Ebola epidemics after 1991 and there are reports of dead apes near the human epidemic sites.

And as it spreads, so do fears that a human epidemic will emerge from it.

Hong Kong's slaughter of 1.5 million chickens and ducks in three days, many experts say, averted a worldwide human epidemic.

Since the World Health Organization, a United Nations agency, first recognized the SARS epidemic in March, scientists have suspected that animals might be involved in the human epidemic.

The investigation began when the Alabama scientists and others argued that the AIDS virus causing the devastating human epidemic originated in chimpanzees.