Example collocations logo

Epidemic in sentence

721 examples of Epidemic in a sentence

New Hope for HaitiNEW YORK – During a recent visit to the rural community of Los Palmas, Haiti, I had the opportunity to talk with families directly affected by the cholera epidemic that has been afflicting the country since the 2010 earthquake.
These efforts have already reduced the toll of the epidemic significantly.
The Haitian people possess all of the compassion and determination needed to overcome the cholera epidemic and achieve inclusive economic development.
For example, the first smallpox epidemic was recorded in Egypt in 1350 BC.
But few predicted last year's SARS epidemic, a pneumonia caused by a coronavirus.
Similar failings have exacerbated the consequences of today's bird-origin influenza epidemic in Vietnam, Thailand, and elsewhere.
This grim situation has led the World Health Organization – and the United Nations more generally – to recognize obesity as an epidemic that must be addressed urgently.
The impact of the epidemic has been devastating, calling into question our three countries’ significant socioeconomic progress in the aftermath of decades of conflict and instability.
Unfortunately, the epidemic forced us to close some of our borders, preventing access to relatives and care.
Together, we can build health care systems, infrastructure, and regional institutions that will be stronger than before the start of the epidemic.
These desperate and vulnerable people are crowded into refugee camps, and there is a high risk that conditions may lead to a deadly cholera epidemic.
What would we do today in the face of the growing world-wide diabetes epidemic without human insulin, now produced on a very large scale from human insulin genes expressed in microorganisms?
As World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan has noted, “Not one single country has managed to turn around its obesity epidemic in all age groups.”
This global epidemic is not confined to advanced countries.
Indeed, the evidence suggests that developing countries are especially vulnerable to the epidemic.
For dozens of countries around the world, the AIDS epidemic threatens every aspect of development.
Even as the SARS epidemic raged in China, Japanese companies kept their long-term investment bets on the promise of low-cost Chinese labor.
But the obesity epidemic hardly looks like a growth killer.
Fat ChanceATLANTA – We are, supposedly, in the midst of an obesity epidemic.
This “globesity” epidemic is seen in poor countries as well as in wealthy ones.
To see a world-wide epidemic of fat caused by a conspiracy of fast-food producers and our genes strikes one as weird: but the dieting culture relies on the sense that we must control this epidemic.
Cai Jing magazine’s continuous reporting on SARS enabled the Chinese public to learn the truth about this epidemic.
With the epidemic still growing, the public-health community is attempting to mount an effective response, using a $100 million funding boost to deploy clinicians, epidemiologists, and other experts.
Doing so in the midst of an epidemic is even more complicated, owing to the social dimension of epidemics.
But they need more support, and international agencies and development banks remain too focused on containing the Ebola epidemic to offer the needed backing.
Atrocities are mounting in South Sudan and the Central African Republic, which are also being swept by an epidemic of sexual violence.
If the bill is signed into law, it could transform Nigeria’s health-care system, providing a model for other West African countries seeking to learn the lessons of the Ebola epidemic and provide health care to all of their citizens.
They screened travelers entering the country and conducted a major public-information campaign to educate citizens on how to contain the epidemic.
What is causing this epidemic and where are we headed?
Perhaps, then, an environmental toxin is causing an epidemic outbreak of autism.
Back