Sentence examples for infectious epidemics from inspiring English sources

Wealthy nations, led by the United States, wanted to limit the number of diseases covered by the agreement to H.I.V. and AIDS; malaria; tuberculosis; or other infectious epidemics of comparable gravity and scale.

"Why are we sitting around passively waiting until new diseases infect half the globe?" Wolfe compares the current approach to infectious epidemics to the treatment of cardiovascular disease in the nineteen-sixties.

In 1998, he and one of his collaborators, David Rasnick, wrote, "All infectious epidemics of the past, such as polio, cholera, tuberculosis, smallpox and syphilis, have long been brought under control, or even eliminated, at a fraction of the cost of AIDS with technology that was far less sophisticated than what is available now".

The attention placed on cruise ship infectious epidemics has helped create important preventive strategies in improving food handling, sanitation, and overall cruise ship medical care.

It is telling that infectious epidemics usually originate in areas of the world that suffer from poor nutrition.

The clustering analyses revealed a clear epidemiological transition, away from localised infectious epidemics, over a generation.

But it takes only a small group to fuel an infectious epidemic.

With India's urban population expected to double in the next thirty years, to seven hundred million, its cities will remain fertile ground for an infectious epidemic.

And then there is the spectre of surprises: another catastrophic hurricane or tsunami, a terrorist attack, oil refinery explosion, unstable petro-dictator, nuclear plant meltdown, deadly heatwave, infectious epidemic, discombobulating iceberg or other such event.

Though tobacco use is not an infectious epidemic, it has a lot in common with contagious illnesses – we know how to prevent the spread of the disease (effective measures that discouraging smoking) and yet the disease continues to evolve (tobacco corporations adopt new strategies to make smoking attractive).

Your simple messages of hope and optimism can snowball into an infectious epidemic of hope throughout the world.