Sentence examples for outbreak contagion from inspiring English sources

It's life imitating art, seemingly ripped from identical scenes in Outbreak, Contagion and the conclusion of Planet of the Apes, except Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't act as if she's dying -- though tens of thousands of West Africans, at a minimum, actually will.

Drawing on the advice of consultants and experts who have studied recent outbreaks, "Contagion" shows that the science of viruses — the process of identifying them and of developing vaccines — continues to evolve, and that both pandemics and the responses to them take on new dimensions in a new information age.

— have acted pragmatically, insisting on the toughest terms they could extract short of inspiring an insurrection in the country concerned or an outbreak of contagion.

People are always curious about the C.D.C., and I always find it interesting when people start talking about movies like "Outbreak" or "Contagion" in which there is some C.D.C. connection.

Meanwhile his viral outbreak movie Contagion (2011, Warner, 12) hits the DVD shelves, taking its lead from such time-honoured disaster epics as Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, in which a galaxy of stars would struggle to outlive one another as the world around them crumbled, sank or exploded.

During each set of bailout negotiations, the ultimate authorities Angela Merkel, the German chancellor; Mario Draghi, the E.C.B. chairman; and Christine Lagarde, the head of the I.M.F. have acted pragmatically, insisting on the toughest terms they could extract short of inspiring an insurrection in the country concerned or an outbreak of contagion.

Alternatively put, screening can only prevent an outbreak of contagion where an effective test for a known disease agent has been developed and incorporated into routine surveillance procedures.

The jury is still out on whether the star-studded viral outbreak movie Contagion will be a Hollywood blockbuster, but don't blame Patrick Hickey if it isn't.

"Americans' views of deadly viruses such as Ebola are shaped by Hollywood movies such as Outbreak and Contagion, and when the prospect of a global pandemic arises, we expect a Hollywood president to take charge," he writes.

A longtime practitioner and scholar of public health, Drucker observed the explosive growth and unprecedented number of Americans being sent to prison beginning in the late 1970s and recognized the familiar characteristics of the spread of an epidemic disease: outbreaks and contagion, patterns of transmission, and human impact – tens of millions of years of life lost to incarceration.

Kimball discusses the perils induced by low levels of surveillance and containment capacity in the nonindustrialized countries, noting that serious outbreaks of contagion frequently overwhelm local health infrastructures and health providers.