Sentence examples for large-scale epidemic from inspiring English sources

Based on their findings, it was "extremely unlikely" that there would be a large-scale epidemic.

"In some regions, leaders and the general public have not fully realized the hidden dangers of a large-scale epidemic," he said.

"There is no blueprint to help us" deal with such a large-scale epidemic," said Dr. Klaus Stöhr, leader of the World Health Organization's influenza program, one of the groups urging vaccination.

We disagree that diversion of medicines is a valid concern – such claims harken back to the rhetoric of the multinational pharmaceutical industry over a decade ago with its stance towards the production and use of low-cost anti-retroviral medicines in developing countries to treat HIV and AIDS, in the face of a large-scale epidemic.

Data from the World Health Organization indicate that the region is currently experiencing a large-scale epidemic of cardiovascular disease.

These efforts effectively avoided a potentially large-scale epidemic of AHC in Taipei City.

Although CHIKV has caused several large-scale epidemics in Asia and the Pacific region, it largely was neglected until its reemergence in the Indian Ocean Islands in early 2005 (6 ).

Then, when hide hunters nearly exterminated the buffalo, and encroaching settlers exiled the native people to reservations, the disease exploded into large-scale epidemics in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Chiquitos missions were spared large-scale epidemics, unlike those in Paraguay, mainly because of their remote locations and the lack of transportation infrastructure.

Without vaccination, years with large-scale epidemics alternate periodically with years of relatively low measles incidence [30], [31].

ONNV caused 2 large-scale epidemics in East Africa during 1959 1962 and in 1996.