Sentence examples for sickness pandemic from inspiring English sources

The "sleepy sickness" pandemic of 1916-17, which persisted into the 1920s, ravaged the lives of nearly 5 million people before it disappeared, as mysteriously and suddenly as it had appeared, in 1927.

For example, a viral infection of the brain that caused a worldwide pandemic of encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sickness) just after World War I resulted in the development of postencephalitic parkinsonism in some survivors.

In pandemic period, the relative increases of sickness absence among medical staff were almost 10 folds higher than those of other staff groups, of 7 times and 15 times respectively for the containment and mitigation periods.

Archaic terms for influenza include epidemic catarrh, grippe (from the French, first used by Molyneaux in 1694 ), sweating sickness, and Spanish fever (particularly for the 1918 flu pandemic strain).

Predictions from these surveys, however, contrasted greatly with our observed 1.77 % overall mean daily all-cause sickness absence rate among hospital-based HCWs during the pandemic mitigation period in HK.

After the 2009 pandemic, several studies attempted to quantify its actual impact on sickness absence among general workers.

In our study ARI-related absence was a major contributor (20 %) to all sickness absence, and the excess ARI-related absence observed in HK during epidemic and pandemic periods (26.5 % and 90.9 % respectively) reflects clearly the burden of influenza epidemics.

Information on symptomatic episodes was augmented through sickness absenteeism rates and staff medical records for details such as dates of illness and tests to confirm pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infection.

For instance, whether or not a pandemic gets global grip may hinge on how quickly a Vietnamese poultry farmer can report any strange sickness.

Lowering the peak of the pandemic reduces the risk for overloading of health services and shortage of health care personnel due to influenza sickness.

Influenza epidemics were associated with a substantial increase in sickness absence and productivity loss among HCWs in Hong Kong, and there was a much higher rate of absenteeism during the 2009 pandemic.