Sentence examples for like epidemic from inspiring English sources

Perhaps our messaging hasn't penetrated: fire-and-brimstone phrases like "epidemic" and "war on obesity" serve well as headlines, but, judging by statistics, have done little to successfully effect change.

This figure has recently revised downwards from previous estimates over 2percentnt and fears of the potential for a Sub-Saharan African like epidemic [ 16].

Crazes behave like epidemics, but in Scrabble's case the bug has never died out, and the Internet has revived its potency.

But of course we cannot be sure that the current trends will continue: wars or major economic dislocations, climate change, epidemics, migrations -- particularly in the era of globalization where bad development (like epidemics) can spread to the four corners of the world easily -- cannot be excluded.

The snippet of footage also confirms that the series does indeed start at the onset of a flu-like epidemic.

[So it could change] if you end up with massive civil wars in that region or you run out of food or there's another AIDS-like epidemic or another virus or something.

These recommendations also proposed to create a national network able to cope with increased demand during an H1N1 influenza-like epidemic and with any broadening of indications stemming from ongoing trial results and the anticipated increase in availability of equipment and consumables.

The other story in this series, on the race to prevent the next Ebola-like epidemic, can be found here.

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), a novel human virus that emerged in 2012, has caused significant respiratory disease and kindled fears of a SARS-like epidemic traversing the world (Hilgenfeld and Peiris, 2013).

If a SARS-like epidemic is seeded in the group of frequent fliers, then the initial rate of international spread is accelerated relative to the rate for the homogeneous case.

In the simulations of a 2008/2009-like epidemic, a 2 week earlier onset of vector control reduced the median case number to 32 (from 692), a reduction of nearly 20 fold.