Sentence examples for spread of the outbreak from inspiring English sources

The spread of the outbreak, which has quickly surpassed Haiti as the biggest since modern records began in 1949, has been exacerbated by hunger and malnutrition.

Detecting and isolating patients early in the course of their infection and quarantining their contacts has had a huge effect on slowing the spread of the outbreak, Dr. Chan said.

In an article published in the New England Journal in April, researchers also tracked the spread of the outbreak, saying an infected health worker extended the disease's reach beyond Guéckédou to surrounding areas.

In addition, subtyping influenza A became critical for the identification of high risk and/or hospitalized patients with novel H1N1 infection and for monitoring the spread of the outbreak.

New York's JFK airport on Saturday began screening passengers from the west African countries worst affected by Ebola, in an attempt to halt the international spread of the outbreak that has killed more than 4,000 people.

The spatio-temporal spread of the outbreak was shown to follow a two-waves pattern originating from the capital (Fort-De-France), which was the epicenter of the outbreak.

Virus expert Dr Charles Chiu told BBC Radio 5 live's Up All Night: "Ebola has no successful treatment... so the main way to prevent the spread of this outbreak is going into isolation".

We did not find statistical evidence of human-to-human spread for the outbreak in eastern Turkey.

But if long-range jumps are extremely rare, distant outbreaks tend to be overtaken by the slow, wavelike spread of the initial outbreak before they can contribute much to the overall epidemic.

On that front, lessons have been learned since early last year, when the Chinese government was slow in releasing reliable information about the spread of the SARS outbreak, said Kazem Behbehani, an assistant director general of the World Health Organization.

China says such rumours, misreporting the spread of the latest outbreak of bird flu for example, are dangerous and can harm public security.