Sentence examples for new epidemics from inspiring English sources

Rising temperatures could lead to new epidemics of mosquito-borne diseases in countries such as Kenya and Uganda.

However, new epidemics like obesity and type 2 diabetes can start causing damage a long time before symptoms appear, and no alarms go off.

"So closely are many new epidemics linked to ecological damage that they might rightfully be called 'ecodemics,' " writes Dr. Walters, a veterinarian and journalist who has written extensively on environmental issues.

Among their findings are that plague can persist in a rat population for years without causing human cases, which helps explain a historical puzzle: why new epidemics kept cropping up in some European cities in the 15th and 16th centuries despite strict quarantine measures.

That is, perhaps, the main reason for our inability to precisely predict new epidemics of vector-borne diseases in general.

Recently, a variety of infectious diseases have emerged into previously disease-free areas, resulting in new epidemics.

Second, there wasn't really a new epidemic of heart disease.

With reports of errors elsewhere being added frequently, what may seem like a new epidemic is really an old problem.

"We are seeing a new epidemic of H.I.V. infections among young gay men, especially young gay men of color".

He became convinced in the 1950s that Americans were suffering from a new epidemic of heart disease because they were eating more fat than their ancestors.

"Tinderbox," though, frames it in terms of Western delusions, and even hubris: "the West tried to remake Africa, and ended up igniting a disastrous new epidemic".