Fortunately, these numbers represent a steep decrease from the epidemic scale of infection prior to the development of the cootie vaccine, which has drastically reduced outbreaks.
We considered other possible explanations for a steep increase such as the epidemic of obesity, increasing utilization of low-dose aspirin, and the higher utilization of high-fructose corn syrup or such dietary changes, but rejected them as the rate of increase was so obviously disproportionate to such long-term trends.
Epidemiologically, food allergies parallel the steep rise of other contemporary epidemics like asthma, diabetes and autoimmune diseases — a phenomenon for which there has been no convincing explanation.
For instance, steeper educational inequalities during the smoking epidemic [ 59, 60] might explain the widening of absolute educational inequalities in mortality among men in our study [ 61].
It has suffered through the attacks of September 2001, the SARS epidemic of 2004 and the steep rise in oil prices of 2008, not to mention a deep recession — all of which crimped traveling and increased costs.
The epidemic curve during P1 shows a steep rise in the first week; detections decreased sharply after control measures were taken.
It's not at epidemic levels, but it's a very steep increase.
As a result, a steep increase was seen in patient admissions, which reached epidemic numbers around July 20, when >350 patients were admitted every day to the hospital of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B).
This epidemic highlights the scarcity of available larval habitat in steep topography regions and the probable role of river pools and human-made canals as habitat for anopheline larvae in highland regions.
Ouch! Gibson's rant, though steeped in some truths about the country's growing obesity epidemic, echoes the harsh words of New York Times columnist Alice Randall last year.
