Sentence examples for pandemic on from inspiring English sources

Mr. Holbrooke put the AIDS pandemic on the Security Council's agenda a year ago as a threat to global peace and security.

A deadly pandemic, on the contrary, is likely to occur whether or not anyone knows how to construct such a virus.

By year's end 12,220 deaths had been reported worldwide, and the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared the pandemic on the decline.

The biggest pandemic on record was the 1918 Spanish influenza, which killed 50 million people at a time when the fastest way to travel the globe was by ship.

There was little doubt that such a scenario could set off a pandemic on the scale of the deadliest influenza outbreak the world had ever seen, the 1918 "Spanish flu".

The subtext of "Spillover" — the likelihood of what Mr. Quammen calls the Next Big One, a global pandemic on the order of the 1918 influenza outbreak — belongs more to Robin Cook than to Faulkner.

But given the desperate circumstances of a billion people, the thousands of daily deaths from preventable causes, the threats posed by failed states, and the prospect of a killer influenza pandemic on top of current health crises, a comprehensive approach is in order.

Interventions to address the impact of the pandemic on children and adolescents commonly target only their vulnerabilities.

Soderbergh's latest film charts the impact of a viral pandemic on its victims and our interconnected world.

In 1918, the worst influenza pandemic on record caused 675,000 deaths in the United States and up to 40 million deaths worldwide.

This paper is based on the experiences drawn from a long-term social science research programme on the impact of the AIDS pandemic on orphanhood in western Kenya.