Sentence examples for pandemic known from inspiring English sources

When did the pandemic known as the Black Plague take place, and where did it strike?

The effect, known as the "cytokine storm" is the leading theory as to why so many young, previously healthy people died in the 1918-19 pandemic, known as the Spanish flu, which killed tens of millions of people.

The first novel in Louise Welsh's dystopian Plague Trilogy, A Lovely Way to Burn, imagined Britain in the grip of a killer flu pandemic known colloquially as "the sweats".

A lethal pandemic known as the "Gray Death" ravages the world's population, especially within the United States, and has no cure.

In 1918, older adults may have had partial protection caused by exposure to the 1889 1890 flu pandemic, known as the Russian flu.

In June, the U.S. marked 35 years since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first cases of a puzzling illness that was initially thought to primarily afflict gay men and would eventually become the global pandemic known as HIV/AIDS.

I'm sure many of the gay men my age who lived through the first onslaught of the AIDS pandemic know what I mean.

We do not imagine that our findings represent final, conclusive evidence that the historical pandemics known as the plague of Justinian and the Black Death were caused by the plague bacterium (Yersinia pestis), let alone that climate fluctuations were instrumental in the origin of these pandemics.

Similarly, we found that studies on 1918 pandemic H1N1, a known pandemic strain, had ferret SAR estimates indicative of supercritical transmission, but again wide confidence intervals overlapped the subcritical and equivocal ranges.

The H1N1 influenza pandemic, also known as swine flu, was the first pandemic of the 21st century.

The early onset, high mortality rate, and news reports associated with the spring pandemic wave in Madrid may have contributed to the fact that today the 1918 influenza pandemic is known as the "Spanish flu" or the "Spanish Lady".