Sentence examples for lethal pandemic from inspiring English sources

That changed as the H5N1 virus threatened to mutate into a lethal pandemic.

Some health officials are concerned that the virus could mutate in a way that would make it more contagious in people and start a lethal pandemic.

Because of its apparently high death rate, that virus touched off global fears of a lethal pandemic and led to the slaughter of millions of birds.

Like a nutty magus, Brown smirks as his plots fast-forward human history to the last days, when we will all be raptured into annihilation by bombs, vials of antimatter particles or a lethal pandemic.

Public health experts cannot say for sure whether this is the opening stage of a lethal pandemic that will claim great numbers of victims around the world, or the emergence of a less worrisome disease that will fizzle out before it can become a major killer.

Meltzer says it is virtually certain there will eventually be another lethal pandemic.

"You could have very lethal pandemics," he said.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the cause of one of the most lethal pandemics in human history, although in recent years access to highly effective anti-retroviral therapy has provided new hope worldwide.

But it is those very leaders who have a historic opportunity not only to end such discrimination but to make a major dent in one of the world's most lethal pandemics in their own backyards.

It is now clear that this is the least lethal modern pandemic.

Influenza viruses were not isolated until the 1930's, so scientists have never directly studied the agent responsible for the lethal 1918 pandemic.