Sentence examples for more recent epidemic from inspiring English sources

Dr. David D. Ho, a biomedical scientist at Rockefeller University, noted the similarities between the views on cholera and the initial reaction to a more recent epidemic that took science by surprise: AIDS.

Although CHIKV has previously been known as a relatively benign disease, more recent epidemic events have brought waves of increased morbidity and fatality, leading it to become a serious public health problem.

This fact can be related to the higher incidence of hospital-acquired cases (i.e. ventilator associated pneumonia) at the beginning of the 2000', and to the more recent "epidemic" increase of health-related and community acquired E-ESBL infections [ 24].

Now, these same people are claiming that it was DDT that created the polio epidemics, even though there is evidence that polio existed in ancient Egypt and that more recent epidemics preceded the introduction of DDT.

It was interesting to find that the lineage causing outbreaks in Brazil in the end of 90's, the isolates from Northeast Brazil between 2001 and 2006, and the viruses representing more recent epidemics (2007 to 2010) in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro States segregated into temporal sub-clades (Figure 1).

However, neuroinvasive disease is now more frequent and the case fatality rates range from 4.2 to 18.6 % in more recent epidemics [ 1, 4, 5].

More recent epidemics such as HIV/AIDS and Ebola Virus Disease EVDD) have not only led to significant loss of life but also to stigma which has continued despite global efforts to control both epidemics.

International scientific literature has shown that, in more recent epidemics, media coverage may have had a positive influence on disease perception (26, 27 ) and, in particular, on vaccination campaigns (28, 29 ).

It was also successful during the more recent SARS epidemic [2], but not during the British foot-and-mouth epidemic [3].

The more recent large epidemic in Serbia and Montenegro occurred in 2002 with 128 laboratory-confirmed cases.

An even more recent plague epidemic that had >21 suspected cases was reported in May 2011 in the city of Tobruk (12 ).