Sentence examples for widespread epidemics from inspiring English sources

Generations of people have used the term to describe widespread epidemics of influenza, cholera and other diseases.

Widespread epidemics in birds appear to increase the opportunity for more people to become infected with avian influenza.

Other lost battles in 1866 68, as well as widespread epidemics of Asiatic cholera, devastated the population of the country.

Widespread epidemics of cholera and plague reduced populations of humans in some areas of the world by more than one-third.

Smallpox was another dreaded disease in Civil War camps, but soldiers were fortunate that a vaccine had been developed that helped prevent widespread epidemics.

In less-developed countries, including Mexico, India, and those in Africa, HEV is responsible for widespread epidemics of hepatitis that occur as a result of ingestion of contaminated water or food (enteric transmission).

"It really will be sexual transmission that will lead to a widespread epidemic and lead to catastrophe," she said.

So this month, an official state legal manual was published in New York to serve as a guide for judges and lawyers who could face grim questions in another terrorist attack, a major radiological or chemical contamination or a widespread epidemic.

Even when governments do call cholera by its name and start inviting international help and expertise, the W.H.O. and Unicef are bureaucracies -- and such invitations can come weeks after a widespread epidemic is under way.

"This is a large and growing epidemic that has the potential to move from where it is now -- in focused risk groups -- to become a very widespread epidemic," said Dr. Helene D. Gayle, the director of the disease control agency's National Center for H.I.V., S.T.D. and TB Prevention, at the end of her visit here.

The short answer is that, if it were feasible, it would be.In this section The other mile-high club The dangers of insularity The cost of living Planet of the apes ReprintsThough HIV in India has not turned into the widespread epidemic some experts feared it would a few years ago, it is reckoned to affect about 2.4m people, many of whom do not realise they are infected.