Sentence examples for outbreak struck from inspiring English sources

The last major Ebola outbreak struck the city of Kikwit in 1995, killing 245 people.

"The foot-and-mouth outbreak struck just as we started to promote the Miyazaki brand overseas," said Shusuke Iwasaki, an agricultural supervisor at Miyazaki Prefecture.

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has not been detected in Britain since 1991, when an outbreak struck a turkey farm in Norfolk.

Last month, the outbreak struck at the symbolic heart of the city, with the discovery of infected mosquitoes in Central Park, and the city closed the park overnight in order to spray there.

Since a deadly Ebola outbreak struck Zaire in 1995, central Africa has suffered nearly a dozen outbreaks of the deadly hemorrhagic fever.

Memish agrees that there seems to be some seasonality in how MERS strikes humans: The first known human cases were from a cluster in Jordan in April 2012, he says, last year in April an outbreak struck four hospitals in the Al Hasa area in Saudi Arabia, and now there is a cluster of cases in Jeddah.

Federal officials have not yet identified the cause of a salmonella outbreak striking almost 400 people in 42 states, but state officials in Minnesota said they believed peanut butter might be involved.

However, when a flu outbreak strikes Pawnee in "Flu Season", Chris becomes severely ill, as due to his extreme workout regimen, he has a poor immune system and low body fat.

This spring outbreak strikes only within 200 300 kilometers of the coast, where bay water from the Bengal Delta pushes upstream, carrying abundant zooplankton and V. cholerae into ponds used by local people for domestic water.

And where might future outbreaks strike?

On November 20, almost 1 month after the first cases had been notified in Saint-Michel-de-l'Attalaye (139,000 inhabitants), we observed several small ongoing cholera outbreaks, striking 1 hamlet after another, leading to 941 cases (including 366 hospitalizations).