Sentence examples for largest pandemic from inspiring English sources

AIDS is the largest pandemic of our time.

Spanish influenza was the largest pandemic, and Japan was seriously affected.

HIV disease is the largest pandemic of the modern age and absorbs an enormous amount of health care resources.

This study has several strengths: this is one of the largest pandemic influenza household studies published to date, and active follow-up was undertaken with daily telephone calls to ensure timely clinical investigation with swab collection to maximize case ascertainment.

Both provaccinationists and antivaccinationists relied heavily on time series of smallpox mortality rate data, which showed a general decline over the 19th century overlaid by several smaller epidemic peaks and the large pandemic peak of 1870 1873.

Thus, it might be noteworthy that the centennial scale minima and maxima (i.e., averaging over moving windows of from 2 to 400 years in length) suggest essentially three periods of higher virulence having been selected for, and that these periods are consistent with the three large pandemic periods.

The latter, described as early as the Hippocratic times, caused three large pandemics during the 20th century: the one in 1918-19, known as the "Spanish flu", the one in 1958-59, and finally the one in 1968 [ 1, 2].

The largest influenza pandemic, known as the Spanish flu (H1N1, 1918 1919), killed as many as 40 50 million people worldwide.

"Over the last 91 years, we've been in one large 1918 pandemic era".

In October, the Bipartisan WMD Terrorism Research Center issued a Bio-Response Report Card that gave failing grades to the nation with regard to its readiness to deal with a large-scale pandemic.

Vaccination remains the most effective method for preventing influenza infection [ 2] despite the complicated logistics of large scale pandemic vaccination campaigns.