Sentence examples for to epidemic from inspiring English sources
noun
A widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population.
Residents, however, hint of an immunity to epidemic.
Meanwhile, low pay had crept up to epidemic levels.
Cholera has often risen to epidemic proportions in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, particularly in India and Bangladesh.
In time the population as a whole again reaches the point at which it is susceptible to epidemic disease.
Obesity and diabetes increased to epidemic proportions, and deadly staph infections and counterfeit drugs raised serious concerns.
It added that "the American childhood has rapidly moved indoors, leading to epidemic levels of childhood obesity and inactivity".
Similar to epidemic routing, PROPHET [13] introduces probabilistic routing decisions.
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) peaks in winter months, partly linked to epidemic influenza.
But, this definition of famine has been criticized because deaths during famines are more related to epidemic diseases than starvation.
Those variants can, for example, confer resistance to host immune systems and drug therapies or lead to epidemic outbreaks.
The congestive heart failure syndrome has increased to epidemic proportions and is cause for significant morbidity and mortality.
