Sentence examples for normal epidemic from inspiring English sources

Although we could not identify the critical reservoir hosts and vectors that allow VEEV to persist in Barinas State, the occurrence of equine cases at the end of the rainy season and beginning of the dry season suggests fundamental differences from normal epidemic or enzootic circulation.

A factor of 1 indicated that last year's epidemic was of expected size, with vales greater than 1 indicating a larger-than-normal epidemic in the previous year.

Clarification of H7N9 virus prevalence along the poultry supply chain (from farm to retail markets), identification of key settings for virus amplification, and characterization of poultry trading patterns during normal and epidemic periods with various interventions will help in preparing an optimal control strategy.

Each of these factors are assigned a risk score, averaged, and ranked in terms of overall risk from 1 (normal season) to 5 (epidemic conditions) (4 ).

We retrospectively evaluated HIV-infected persons for whom alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels had increased acutely (>5 × the upper limit of normal) during the HIV epidemic (1985 2009).

Such considerations are crucially important in the determination of the normal situation against which epidemics are measured.

HEALTH Larry Kramer, the gay rights advocate who wrote the play "The Normal Heart"about the AIDS epidemic, recently accused Mr. Koch of ignoring the disease's spread in a city with a large gay population because "he was terrified everyone would find out he was gay and he would lose his support from the real estate industry".

Various explanations have been offered: progress in sanitation, hospitalization, and cleanliness; a change in domestic housing that excluded rats from human dwellings; abandonment of old trade routes; and a natural quiescent phase in the normal rise and decline of epidemic diseases.

Another more controversial approach is to see the obesity epidemic as "a normal physiological response to a changed environment, not in the pathology of the regulatory system" (Zheng et al., 2009).

Simulations with R0 = 50 and 75 produced consistent results but with greater separation of the gamma, log-logistic, log-normal, and shifted-log-logistic epidemic curves (results not shown).

Many more people may have died from the indirect effects of the epidemic and closure of normal health-care facilities.