Sentence examples for serious epidemics from inspiring English sources

Thailand also has serious epidemics of tuberculosis and H.I.V. Now there is little on people's minds but the flu.

Nevertheless, aviation leaves countries only a flight away from the possibility of being exposed to serious epidemics from many infectious diseases, as was vividly illustrated earlier this year by SARS.

The agreement on medicines brokered in Qatar makes it clear that poor countries can make generic versions of expensive brand name drugs for the treatment of AIDS and other serious epidemics -- a situation that the big drug companies have long sought to avoid.

Pending policy issues: The United States needs to be ready for serious epidemics, and even a global pandemic.

And the possibility that much more serious epidemics or pandemics could spread by air travel has been a worry for years, whether it is avian flu, Sars or tuberculosis.

The serious epidemics of heart disease and cancers underway in developing countries will necessitate a nutritional solution beyond "strengthening health services" and drawing on the epidemiological evidence that Japanese, Canadians and Scandinavians who are among those who live off the oceans, live the longest in the world.

"Price gouging at the pump is a potentially serious epidemic in this climate".

Underage drinking is illegal, and it is a serious epidemic among our teenage population.

The government's chief medical officer professor Liam Donaldson has called the current outbreak the first "serious epidemic" for 10 years.

"40 years ago I smoked marijuana," he admitted, but added "we have a serious epidemic of drugs that goes way beyond marijuana".

Only occasionally, as with the m strain of HIV-1, does the chatter lead to a serious epidemic.