Sentence examples for outbreak rather than a from inspiring English sources

These findings suggested that an environmental factor lay at the heart of the outbreak, rather than a genetic one.

Instead, our results suggest that this was a true outbreak rather than a reporting artefact, with Farm A as the probable source.

Other results (not presented here) indicate that the results are different (and possibly misleading) with a smooth deterministic outbreak rather than a stochastic one.

Given that it was an actual outbreak rather than a controlled experiment, it is not possible to determine and thus control for the levels of exposure to infectious material.

In addition, the sites that tested positive for the epidemic clone were near colonized patients, and the presence of this clone in the environment may have been a simple consequence of the outbreak rather than a source for transmission of the strain [ 32].

In Hanoi, during the initial outbreak, rather than look for an 'opt-out' clause in their professional codes, doctors and nurses locked themselves into the hospital in isolation rather than risk spreading the disease[ 10].

"Patient zero" is a typically used to describe the first patient in an infectious disease outbreak, rather than the first patient to have received a treatment.

Vincent Martin, of the FAO, said 70% of people interviewed in Sierra Leone had been eating only one meal a day since the outbreak, rather than two or three.

The update prompted the WHO to say that the focus is now on bringing to an end the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, rather than just slowing its spread.

But the experiment was performed using an earlier variant of the virus preserved from the 1995 Kikwit, Congo outbreak, rather than the current strain.

The current panic over Zika, Lobel said, was a sign of how ill-prepared the world was for such epidemics, which meant it was always fighting the last outbreak rather than the next one.