Mr. President, on October 15, 2016, twenty-five days before you were elected the 45 President of the United States of America, you doubled-down on a promise you had made in New Hampshire to help end the heroin epidemic killing 144 Americans every day.
22 This was to be the world's largest free ART programme 23 a response to an epidemic killing 300 000 South Africans each year.
The most significant example again was in Haiti, where security actors inadvertently contaminated the country's water supply with cholera; the cholera became epidemic killing thousands, sickening hundreds of thousands and remains now endemic in the country [ 48].
This doesn't include the thousands of civilians killed in epidemics, guerrilla raids and draft riots.
In nature, rice blast fungus attacks all above-ground parts of rice plants, and seedlings can be killed during epidemics.
The cocoliztli epidemic from 1576 to 1578 cocoliztli epidemic killed an additional 2 to 2.5 million people, or about 50% of the remaining native population.
Last year Dr. David Satcher, then the surgeon general, said the problem of overweight and obese Americans had reached "epidemic proportions," killing 300,000 people a year.
It was the worst infectious disease epidemic ever, killing more Americans in just a few months than died in World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam Wars combined.
HONG KONG, May 7 — A mysterious epidemic is killing pigs in southeastern China, but international and Hong Kong authorities said Monday that the Chinese government was providing little information about it or the contaminated wheat gluten that has caused death and illness in pets in the United States.
In 1918, for example, the Spanish Flu epidemic struck, killing one in 10 Telluriders over the course of two months.
