Sentence examples for pandemic proportion from inspiring English sources

Obesity and its associated comorbidities, which include type 2 diabetes mellitus, are reaching pandemic proportion [ 39, 40].

The literature is awash with evidence of global dissemination of CTX-M type ESBL of pandemic proportion [ 9, 13, 14].

For example, an epidemic starting in a subpopulation in Italy, where the across-groups mixing is equal to ε = 0.08, would reach pandemic proportion if a small fraction of children would travel by air, with respect to the case in which such fraction is neglected (see the vertical line in Figure 6A).

Jump to the 1950s and the popularity of the newly created stiletto heel reached pandemic proportions.

Just like Facebook addiction, which also spreads from person to person and has now reached pandemic proportions, with more than a billion sufferers worldwide.

Why was it so hard to tell, as the story was breaking, if a flu outbreak of pandemic proportions was under way?

The report warns that "the outbreak of diseases in epidemic if not pandemic proportions is very likely," citing the risk of cholera and dysentery.

In only one year in recent memory has influenza reached pandemic proportions, when the strain of H1N1 "swine flu" swept through the US in 2009.

Night of the Living Dead replaced the image of a harmless voodoo-created zombie with a hostile, flesh-eating ghoul that swelled its numbers to pandemic proportions.

Prof Lesley Regan, the president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which represents 14,000 doctors working in Britain and worldwide who specialise in childbirth and women's health, said: "Obesity has reached pandemic proportions globally and its origins start in the womb.

It is well established that obesity has reached pandemic proportions.