Sentence examples for outbreak hit from inspiring English sources

The worst single outbreak hit Uganda in 2000, infecting more than 400 people, half of whom died.

When a botulism outbreak hit this provincial park on Lake Erie in early September, it closed the beach.

Outside Africa an outbreak hit the country of Tajikistan, where 458 cases had been reported by December.

In 2014, when the Ebola outbreak hit west Africa, Phelan consulted on the epidemic for both the World Health Organisation and the countries affected.

"At that moment the Ebola outbreak hit, so we couldn't do anything," said Souley Lalibou, leader of the WHO's polio response in Guinea.

The court heard that Beckingham was head of the Design Service Group at Barrow council when the outbreak hit the town.

A1 Demand for teleconferencing services is soaring as more Asian employers send their workers home and companies in the United States restrict employee travel to the Pacific Rim as the outbreak hits China, Singapore and Taiwan.

And when a polio outbreak hits the city, his sense of duty swells: "This was real war too, a war of slaughter, ruin, waste and damnation, war with the ravages of war — war upon the children of Newark".

"While these compelling results come too late for those who lost their lives during west Africa's Ebola epidemic, they show that when the next Ebola outbreak hits, we will not be defenceless," said Dr Marie-Paule Kieny, the World Health Organisation's assistant director general for health systems and innovation, and the study's lead author.

This week's results hinder efforts to find a viable treatment before the next outbreak hits.

"While these compelling results come too late for those who lost their lives during west Africa's Ebola epidemic, they show that when the next Ebola outbreak hits, we will not be defenseless," Marie-Paule Kieny, the WHO's assistant director general for health systems and innovation and the study's lead author, told The Guardian.