Sentence examples for severe epidemics from inspiring English sources

During World War II, several potentially severe epidemics of typhus, especially the epidemic in Naples, Italy, in 1943 1944, were averted by dusting at-risk populations with DDT.

Similar to the identification of catastrophic epidemics, over 90% of severe epidemics were correctly identified several days before the mean peak day of the epidemics, which was observed on day 67.

Twenty of those cause severe epidemics in major production areas, occasionally leading to complete crop failures.

In severe epidemics, crop loss may be as high as 75percentt, and millions of hectares of rice are infected annually.

They found humidity to be linked with more severe epidemics as it "fosters the dissemination of the bacteria," (Committee on Atmosphere and Man, 1923).

Coronaviruses (CoVs) are critical human and animal pathogens because of their potential to cause severe epidemics of respiratory or enteric diseases.

Both are efficiently transmitted by aphids in a nonpersistent manner, which often results in rapid and severe epidemics in the fields.

However, severe epidemics still affect parts of Africa, particularly across north-central sub-Saharan Africa, a region that has become known as the meningitis belt.

Navas-Castillo, J., Sánchez-Campos, S., Díaz, J. A., Sáez-Alonso, E. & Moriones, E. Tomato yellow leaf curl virus-Is causes a novel disease of common bean and severe epidemics in tomato in Spain.

In ad 1089 one of the most severe epidemics was known as St. Anthony's fire because those who prayed to St. Anthony were said to recover; others, who did not, died.

Past changes in the geographic distribution of tsetse flies, which transmit the protozoans to humans and which are highly responsive to shifts in environmental temperature, led to severe epidemics.