Sentence examples for widespread pandemics from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, because of the indiscriminate nature of these weapons—as well as the potential for starting widespread pandemics, the difficulty of controlling disease effects, and the simple fear that they inspire most countries have agreed to ban the entire class.

"Plague strains are always emerging from rodent reservoirs, causing disease in humans, but what we don't see are the widespread pandemics because now the public health response would be quick and very concentrated to shut that down".

In the course of history, plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, has been responsible for at least 3 widespread pandemics with high mortality rates.

In July 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an influenza pandemic on the basis of widespread pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 observed globally (1 ).

Another possible limitation of this study was the widespread pandemic of new influenza A(H1N1) that occurred during the study period.

A widespread pandemic could quickly disrupt activities in many sectors, including trade (including potential trade bans) (104), transportation, healthcare delivery, critical infrastructure, and so on.

Influenza A viruses are also subject to antigenic shifts; these are changes of greater magnitude and are responsible for the emergence of new subtypes of influenza viruses, which may result in a widespread pandemic in an immunologically naïve population.

More specifically, the model suggests that increasing the range of one-to-many transmission (r), increasing the social influence of prestigious celebrities (cs) and increasing the proportion of the population who are assigned celebrity status (cp) can all increase the probability of widespread suicide pandemics.

These studies were designed to rapidly provide the US FDA with sufficient information to guide licensure decisions regarding MedImmune's monovalent live attenuated 2009 H1N1 vaccine in the setting of a widespread H1N1 pandemic; as a result they have a number of limitations.

Add to this lethal mixture of human misery, the social tragedy of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, widespread hunger and the sometimes fatal presence of such diseases as malaria and meningitis and you get the picture: a hopeless continent plagued by intractable problems, a place no one would want to live or visit.

This study has demonstrated evidence of widespread infection with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus in a closed setting, with a substantial proportion of asymptomatic persons.