Sentence examples for regional outbreaks from inspiring English sources

The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified drought and dust storm activity in the sub-Saharan region of Africa as causing regional outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis (in 1996 there were ~ 250,000 cases and 25,000 deaths) (Griffin 2007; WHO 2003).

Reports of smaller, regional outbreaks of encephalitis, typhoid fever, malaria, polio, pneumonia and influenza pepper the nightly news.

Despite its role in helping to fight regional outbreaks of disease, Taiwan is refused observer status at the World Health Organisation.

Officials at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which sent three epidemiologist investigators to Washington last week, said the number of pertussis cases had been rising gradually nationwide for several decades, with periodic regional outbreaks.

DAKAR, Senegal — A fierce cholera epidemic is spreading through the coastal slums of West Africa, killing hundreds and sickening many more in one of the worst regional outbreaks in years, health experts said.

Outbreaks are also classified according to the area affected: in local outbreaks, one or only a portion of one state is affected; in regional outbreaks, two or three states contain all or almost all the tornadoes; in national outbreaks, tornadoes are reported in many states.

This action undoubtedly prevented an expensive regional outbreak until H5N1 emerged again in 2003.

Fujita's analysis of the Palm Sunday Outbreak of April 11 12 , 1965 was the first systematic analysis of a regional outbreak.

Saudi Arabia has been the center of a regional outbreak of the disease, the subject of an emergency World Health Organization meeting on Wednesday.

Future regional outbreak responses will likely benefit from the lessons learned during this outbreak.

Preventing a regional outbreak The target is to immunize at least 90,000 people against measles.