Sentence examples for lethal epidemic from inspiring English sources
Some scientists argue that the research should not even have been done, since the modified virus could slip out of a lab and set off a lethal epidemic.
As the world begins to mobilise against the lethal epidemic, there are already vital lessons emerging that must be learnt so that countries may respond more swiftly and effectively to similar threats.
Silverman painted a bleak picture of South Los Angeles during this era, describing crack cocaine's impact on the community as a "lethal epidemic".
A reduction in immune system diversity might, for example, result in a serious and lethal epidemic that would kill thousands of people.
A lethal epidemic sweeps through a naïve population, many die but those who survive are never "attacked twice ― never at least fatally", as the historian Thucydides observed in 430 BCE.
Currently, the only real benefit to destroying all known remaining stockpiles of variola in the world would be the elimination of the extremely unlikely possibility of unleashing a lethal epidemic due to the theft or accidental release of the virus from one of the remaining official stocks.
Marburg is a close relative of the Ebola virus, which had previously caused lethal epidemics in Angola.
Indeed, by his own account, the vanished communities he chronicles were blighted by lethal epidemics and casual racism; home to backstreet abortions as well as civic pride.But such a response misses Mr Jack's point.
We limit our analysis of Y. pestis-variant plague outbreaks to the widespread, highly lethal epidemics that hit Manchuria and India prior to 1920.
In women, the long-term absolute and parallel declines in mortality reveal few dynamics attributable to changing educational inequalities in lethal epidemics.
The most sensational allegation, made by an American writer, Patrick Tierney, in a 2000 book, "Darkness in El Dorado", was that in the 1960s Mr Chagnon and his collaborators had deliberately exacerbated a lethal measles epidemic among the Yanomamo.
