Sentence examples for minor epidemic from inspiring English sources
At seventeen parts per billion, they simply leave a bad smell — like rotten eggs — which means that Belgium should have experienced nothing more than a minor epidemic of nose-wrinkling.
From Kate Moss to Britney, the minor epidemic spans across celebs of all ages.
Within a stochastic modeling framework, it is known that an outbreak declines to extinction without causing a large epidemic with a probability of extinction p (small outbreaks are referred to as minor epidemic).
When R0 ≤ 1 the probability of a minor epidemic, which dies out without intervention, is R0/(R0 + 1).
Type A2, B, C1, C2, C3, C4 and other minor epidemic strains spread in different wards, which indicated that resistance towards antibiotic become more common in the hospital.
Rubella occurred worldwide before immunization programs were instituted, with minor epidemics arising every 6 to 9 years and major epidemics every 30 years.
But Dr. Ebright noted that the deadly SARS virus recently escaped from BSL-4 and BSL-3 labs in Taiwan, Singapore and Beijing, in each case setting off minor epidemics that killed or sickened people.
West Nile virus historically was largely confined to Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Russia, India, and Indonesia, where it caused occasional, usually minor, epidemics of denguelike illness or sporadic encephalitis.
In order to more specifically identify factors influencing the proportion of minor epidemics (accounting for early extinction) we also calculate partial rank correlation coefficients (PRCC) for this variable.
However, due to the lack of sustainable surveillance systems, available data are sparse in most of the countries of this region either during minor epidemics or during inter-epidemic periods.
The proportion of minor epidemics is significantly lower in the completely connected graph compared to the low connected scale-free network (right and left panels of Figure 7 respectively), since this latter network facilitates the occurrence of early fade-outs.
