Yet if Mas himself got burned, the cause he peddled on the campaign trail surged: the case for Catalonia's independence was the election's clear winner.
With influenza cases surging in at least 10 states, vaccine makers said they had shipped out their entire supplies.
Japan confirmed its first swine flu patient on Saturday but the number of cases quickly surged to about 236 H1N1 cases as of Wednesday, according to Kyodo news.
In December 2015, as cases of microcephaly began to surge in Brazil, cases of locally acquired infections were just beginning to show up in Puerto Rico.
Along with the cholera outbreak, the number of meningitis cases was surging.
The world's victory over smallpox has had an unfortunate consequence: monkeypox cases are surging in tropical Africa.
Mental competency cases are surging in L.A. County and supervisors want to know why.
Spraying was cut back, and cases surged to 537,000 by 1969.
Imports of watches with gold, platinum or silver cases surged to 2,020,000 in 1998 from 1,190,000 in 1997, according to government statistics on imports.
According to a report by the Supreme People's Procuracy, torture cases surged to their highest level in six years during the 1996 Strike Hard campaign.
We showed that the number of cases surged when an outbreak occurred, either during the SARS outbreak or during publicized A(H5N1) outbreaks.
