Sentence examples for massive outbreak in from inspiring English sources

In the wake of a massive outbreak in Britain that peaked in 1993, the US intensified precautions to keep BSE out of US cattle and the food supply.

Escherichia coli O104:H4, which caused a massive outbreak in 2011 with nearly 4000 infected persons, more than 900 cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and 54 deaths1, is a hybrid of enterohaemorrhagic (EHEC) and enteroaggregative (EAEC) E. coli2,3,4.

Nipah made its way to humans in Malaysia after causing a massive outbreak in pigs, killing 105 of its 276 victims (Science, 16 April 1999, p. 407).

In addition, they shared a common ancestor with a strain that caused a massive outbreak in French Polynesia in November 2013.

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a recently re-emerged arthropod borne virus responsible for a massive outbreak in the Indian Ocean and India, and extended to Southeast Asia as well as Italy.

U.S.-grown radish sprout seeds, for example, were implicated in a massive outbreak in Japan.

Flu scientists argue that such studies are needed to better gauge pandemic risks—in this case, from H5N1, which has caused massive outbreaks in poultry and wild birds in Asia, Africa, and Europe since 2003.

Take a look at 10 of the world's infectious diseases, many of which sparked massive outbreaks in recent years.

Instead, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was caught flat-footed by the massive outbreak last year in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya, countries where the disease had previously been eliminated.

The virus has since spread through the regions of South East Asia and a massive outbreak had occurred in Thailand, Vietnam, India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

In a massive outbreak of epidemic typhus observed in Burundi, doxycycline was efficient in controlling the outbreak among jail inmates, causing a decrease in the death rate from 15%to0.5%5% after administration of a single dose of 200 mg (Table 2).