Sentence examples for worldwide epidemics from inspiring English sources

Only Saddam has both the capacity and the demonstrated will to destroy entire cities and launch worldwide epidemics.

Throughout the last two decades, there have been articles in the press on the growing threat of worldwide epidemics, whether from bioterrorism or just from globalization and immigration.

In 1973, Dr. Kilbourne proposed that worldwide epidemics might be terrestrial "Andromeda strains" coming to man from the barnyard and then retreating to await the next great outbreak.

A professor of epidemiology at Yale for 30 years, Dr. Shope contended that the growth of world population, rapid international travel and the development of drug-resistant microbes and pesticide-resistant insects made worldwide epidemics more likely.

Since the turn of the century seven new respiratory viruses have infected man and two of these have resulted in worldwide epidemics.

Land-use and transport policies contribute to worldwide epidemics of injuries and non-communicable diseases through traffic exposure, noise, air pollution, social isolation, low physical activity, and sedentary behaviours.

Until recently, that attitude had hampered the World Health Organization's investigation into the worldwide epidemic.

It's good that so many people are seemingly invested in ending what is a national and a worldwide epidemic.

At the same time, Dr. Hughes said, the possibility of a worldwide epidemic cannot be ruled out.

With global population aging, "We have an imminent worldwide epidemic," said Edward Truschke, president of the Alzheimer's Association.

His first assignment was to look for ways to protect troops from avian flu, then a worldwide epidemic.