Amid all of this, an ongoing epidemic of arson was laying siege to the neighborhood.
The bracelets, she explained, were a symbolic protest against Venezuela's ongoing epidemic of kidnapping.
In an annex to the Eliasson letter, the UN sets out the varied ways it claims to be striving to contain the ongoing epidemic that continues to kill scores of Haitians every month.
If the alternative hypothesis is right -- still a big "if" -- then it strongly suggests that the ongoing epidemic of obesity in America and elsewhere is not, as we are constantly told, due simply to a collective lack of will power and a failure to exercise.
"I have concerns about whether that's the wisest thing to do in the face of an ongoing epidemic," Subbarao said.
Isfahan healthy heart program (IHHP), a six year, action-oriented, comprehensive and integrated community-based demonstration study, was launched late in 1999 to address the ongoing epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their major risk factors in Iran.
Kirchofer, instead, encouraged her colleagues to focus their attention on the ongoing epidemic of opioid and heroin addiction.
Since well before the actor's death, Vermont has been grappling with how to approach an ongoing epidemic of heroin abuse.
The Zika virus is the cause of an ongoing epidemic of birth defects first noticed in Brazil in late 2015.
High levels of lead in the earth and the use of rudimentary mining methods have resulted in an ongoing epidemic of lead poisoning among children.
They also found evidence of a recent and unreported wave of H58 transmission in many countries in Africa, which may represent an ongoing epidemic.
