Sentence examples for scale of the outbreak from inspiring English sources

Questions and answers on the scale of the outbreak and the science of the Ebola virus.

"The scale of the outbreak is much larger than anything ever seen before," said Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesman.

The latest report, whose authors include members of the investigation team, says delays in telling public health officials may have contributed to the scale of the outbreak.

Dr Duncan McCormick, a consultant in public health medicine, said medical staff were now trying to identify other unidentified cases to establish the true scale of the outbreak.

While health authorities in Africa's most populous country say they have the virus under control, there are fears the actual scale of the outbreak is under-reported.

Mr. Caplan said that the emergency order was appropriate given the scale of the outbreak, and that he believed it would survive any legal challenges.

The size and scale of the outbreaks mean the region is facing one of the biggest epidemics in its history.

The ecological similarity between the past and current outbreaks also lends support to the notion that the scale of this outbreak is more heavily influenced by patterns of human-to-human transmission than any expansion of the zoonotic niche.

The scale of this outbreak is like nothing seen before, and that could have implications at the microbiological level, said Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and one of the main researchers who discovered the Ebola virus in 1976.

The scale of this outbreak led Kazakhstani Deputy Prime Minister Berdibek Saparbaev to officially call upon foreign medical institutions to help local doctors find the source of the illness and figure out exactly what the hell is going on.

UNICEF has been working to support partners and local communities to minimize the scale of this outbreak.