Sentence examples for lethal outbreak from inspiring English sources

When a lethal outbreak of avian flu sweeps through the Korean suburb of Bundang, less than 20km from Seoul, the area is quarantined, troops are sent in and the most extreme containment measures are executed.

A lethal outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, devastated tourism in Guangdong Province in early 2003, so provincial officials asked that the struggling farm be opened to tourists as part of a recovery program.

While smallpox often makes a deadly walk-on appearance in histories of colonial life, Ms. Fenn gives the virus top billing, arguing that one particularly lethal outbreak in the 1770's nearly cost the colonies the War of Independence.

In that year a particularly lethal outbreak occurred in Jessore, India, midway between Calcutta (Kolkata) and Dhaka (now in Bangladesh), and then spread throughout most of India, Burma (Myanmar), and Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

After a lethal outbreak of E. coli in 1993, Dr. Tauxe said the United States created a government database that gathered information on laboratory testing of pathogens and shared it with health officials around the country.

As the death toll from the latest outbreak of the world's deadliest virus climbed to 467 – far exceeding the previous most lethal outbreak which killed 254 people in Congo – officials and health workers are battling a surge of infections propelled by misinformation and doubt about the disease's existence on one side, and mistrust of scandal-hit governments on the other.

However, in some areas extraordinarily lethal outbreaks were documented: more than 5,000 inhabitants of Naples died in 1884, 60,000 in the provinces of Valencia and Murcia in Spain in 1885, and perhaps as many as 200,000 in Russia in 1893 94.

Instead of tracking hares, rabbits and other small game, Cliff puts his nostrils to work on the wards chasing down patients suffering from Clostridium Difficile, the hospital infection that can spread rapidly among the elderly causing lethal outbreaks.

Streptococcus iniae is highly pathogenic in freshwater, marine, and euryhaline fish, and is highly lethal: outbreaks may be associated with 30 50% mortality.

Simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV) has caused lethal outbreaks of hemorrhagic disease in captive primates, but its distribution in wild primates has remained obscure.

Given the rapid pace of environmental change in the modern world, it is crucial that we understand past lethal outbreaks as fully as possible in order to prepare for future deadly pandemics.