The opioid crisis, an epidemic striking at the core of communities nationwide, is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States.
However, the global rates for gallbladder cancer exhibit striking variability, reaching epidemic levels for some regions and ethnicities.
More than 80% of these deaths will occur in less-developed countries, with the epidemic striking hardest in the rapidly growing economies [ 1].
Annual variation in the size of epidemics was striking, with the highest peak occurring in 2006 10100 cases) and the smallest in 2005 (only 6 cases) (Table 1).
S. brasiliensis host predilection, which results in high severe disease in cats, is a striking difference from the epidemics ongoing around the world and in fact has been pivotal to the success of feline outbreaks.
In accordance with the suggested boundaries of the meningitis belt proposed by Lapeyssonnie 40 years previously, the risk map also demonstrated a striking association between IMD epidemics and the 300 1,100 rainfall isohyets in all of Africa, also outside the belt.
The historic numbers tell a striking tale of an epidemic that crested and then began to fall as the means of transmission became better understood and drug treatment was simplified from a handful of pills to a single capsule containing three medications.
However, Pastor-Satorras and Vespignani further showed a striking result that the epidemic threshold (lambda_{c}) will vanish for a heterogenous network with sufficiently large sizes [1, 2, 4].
The prevalence of dominant sequences during the peak of the epidemic was striking and to our knowledge has not been described previously.
(A striking contemporary account of the epidemic and its context may be found in Il ventre di Napoli, by the journalist Matilde Serao. In 1973, during a brief reappearance of cholera in the city, this book, reissued, was found all too apposite).
