If only case isolation and contact tracing are used to fight against the outbreak, the large initial attack overwhelms the public health resources and the smallpox outbreak afflicts more than 50% of the population.
BERLIN — Local German officials said Sunday that they had evidence that tainted domestic sprouts had caused the deadly E. coli outbreak that has afflicted Germany and unnerved fresh-produce markets throughout Europe, and they shut down the farm in the northern part of the country where the sprouts were grown.
However, even as rates in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have significantly decreased, we must continue to reach our target of zero cases, prevent future outbreaks and rebuild afflicted communities.
For example, in the mid-1990's a nationwide outbreak of salmonellosis that afflicted an estimated 224,000 people stemmed from a single source: a batch of Schwan's ice cream that became tainted with Salmonella enteritidis when the pasteurized ice cream premix was transported in tanker trailers previously used to carry unpasteurized liquid eggs.
Other major outbreaks in the recent past, in Northern Uganda and in the Democratic Republic of Congo are similarly afflicted although outbreaks have also occurred in stable settings.
R ecently I had started to hope that the outbreak of behindism afflicting the BBC was beginning to fade.
On the 6th, the outbreak of influenza that has afflicted millions of the region's birds claimed its 50th human victim, a young girl in Vietnam.
National Theatre: Lyttelton, SE1, to 21 Mar Daniel Bye's one-man show begins on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to London when all but one of the passengers are afflicted by an outbreak of weeping.
Lions in the Ngorongoro Crater were afflicted by an outbreak of stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) in 1962; this resulted in lions becoming covered in bloody bare patches and emaciated.
Mainly, though, we've been afflicted with a virulent outbreak of rueful savviness, as the pundits have explained why the Nobel is a very, very bad political development for the White House.
