Sentence examples for plague spreading from inspiring English sources

This time around, however, some concern is being raised over the urban spread, as well as the form of plague spreading in Madagascar.

In August, the Minister of Health (MOH) declared that the outbreak had been 'controlled'; however, the media continued to report human plague cases and noted concern regarding the potential danger of plague spreading to urban markets.

Both modern Africa and medieval Europe suffered growth reversals after long-lasting epidemics: after HIV/AIDS hit Africa and after bubonic plague spread into Europe.

And all the evidence I've looked at suggests the plague spread too fast for the traditional explanation of transmission by rats and fleas.

Its outward aspect is symbolized by a vile Ebola-like plague spread by terrorists who steal it from a government laboratory.

The plague spread so widely in the 14th century because hordes of flea-infested rats lived in human homes and workplaces, and many people developed the pneumonic form, which can be spread by sneezing or coughing.

For once, this portentous device makes sense, since the plague spreads geometrically and inexorably in time and space, and we need to know the progress of the disease at any given moment.

When plague spread through much of London in July, Shakespeare's parish, St Olave's of Silver Street, located in the north-west just inside London's city walls, had been spared.

When Jemima Wilkinson was 17 years old, in 1776, she caught a plague spread by… REPORTER AT LARGE to the Oneida Community Mansion, Kenwood, N.Y., built over 65 years ago by American Communists as a communal dwelling, founded by John… REPORTER AT LARGE.

The GWOT was declared by the Reagan administration when it took office, with fevered rhetoric about a "plague spread by depraved opponents of civilization itself" (as Reagan put it) and a "return to barbarism in the modern age" (the words of George Shultz, his secretary of state).

All attempts by London public health officials to contain the disease failed, and the plague spread rapidly.