Sentence examples for severe epidemics of 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.

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

Since 2005, La Réunion and neighboring islands in the Indian Ocean have experienced severe epidemics of chikungunya involving high incidences in the population [http://www.invs.sante.[fr, 2]].

In the Northern hemisphere winter of 1972 to 1973, relatively severe epidemics of A/England/42/72 (H3N2) were noted on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean [6], [22].

Severe epidemics of CHIKV infection have occurred in countries in the Indian Ocean region and Africa (1 – 3 ).

Historically, military basic trainees have been vulnerable to severe epidemics of febrile respiratory illness (FRI) [ 1, 2].

Zimbabwe, located in southern Africa, experienced a severe epidemic of cholera from 2008 to 2009.

To the Editor: The United States is facing a severe epidemic of addiction to opioid painkillers fueled by overprescribing.

In the UK, the Department of Health wrote, before swine flu emerged, that "we can assume [that the next pandemic] will be of greater magnitude than even the most severe epidemic of 'ordinary' flu".

The information was important because the drug was being stockpiled by the United States and other governments in the belief that it would help people survive a potentially severe epidemic of swine flu.

In 2013-2014 a severe epidemic of Chikungunya fever occurred for the first time in the Caribbean and the Americas with over a million cases in 42 territories.