Sentence examples for major pandemic from inspiring English sources

CA-MRSA strains differ from the major pandemic clones of MRSA that account for the majority of epidemic HA-MRSA strains.

Reliable records of influenza, dating back to the 1700s, suggest a pattern of one major pandemic every century.

"If the WHO does not successfully reform, the next major pandemic will cause thousands of otherwise preventable deaths.

That's because, if a major pandemic does arise, other countries may not respect intellectual property rights as they scramble to copy a drug or vaccine for domestic distribution.

Many people including Rajeev Venkayya, the senior director for biodefence at the White House give warning that a major pandemic is overdue.

Both SARS Coronavirus which quickly spread to 29 countries in February 2003 and H1N1 swine influenza that recently spread from Mexico to 30 countries in three weeks represent major pandemic threats for mankind.

But New York has been around for a long time and hasn't particularly suffered badly from major pandemics.

"It has a good possibility of manifesting in our lifetime; there have been three major pandemics, and a mild one three years ago – which doesn't reduce the possibility of a pandemic happening".

"Rising global temperatures will have devastating impacts on poor countries and poor people – and, as we saw with Ebola, major pandemics are likely to disproportionately affect the poor". Kim said that most virologists and infectious disease experts are certain a pandemic will sweep the world in the next 30 years.

He says: "The whole flea-rodent ecology of plague is what led to major pandemics of the bubonic form of the plague in Europe".

The viruses that caused the major pandemics of the past century emerged upon reassortment (that is, genetic mixing) of animal and human influenza viruses (22).