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Epidemic in sentence

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Unfortunately, over the past quarter century, epidemic obesity has made our two-ton steel cars gain weight twice as fast as we have.
But for the first time in three decades into this epidemic we have a real chance to come to grips with HIV.
But in order to do that we need to tackle an epidemic of really bad law.
Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.
And the opioid epidemic has only amplified that stress.
But before I get to that, I want to share what it was like to witness this epidemic grow in Kensington.
The opioid epidemic is not just about those living with opioid use disorder because the reach of the epidemic goes well beyond those living with this and their families.
And perhaps now, because of the epidemic, more people are paying attention to Kensington.
If you think about the bird flu epidemic of a couple of years ago, the more people that were infected, the more people that got infected, and the faster the virus spread before the authorities managed to get a handle on events.
What that means is we have the tools to break the back of this epidemic.
So surely if a patent pool could be established to ramp up the production of military airplanes, we should be able to do something similar to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Once you've got the mosquito in your area, anyone coming into that area with dengue, mosquito will bite them, mosquito will bite somewhere else, somewhere else, somewhere else, and you'll get an epidemic.
A high degree of interconnectivity can be bad for stability, because then the stress can spread through the system like an epidemic.
And the World Health Organization also says that depression is the biggest epidemic that humankind has ever faced.
A new global epidemic.
In 1918, we had a flu epidemic in the United States that killed 20 million people.
I just don't believe it's an epidemic like this.
And when they did, they took smallpox to 10 other countries and reignited the epidemic.
I know it sounds crazy because we're obviously in the midst of an obesity epidemic, but hear me out.
What if being obese is just a metabolic response to something much more threatening, an underlying epidemic, the one we ought to be worried about?
So if you put these physiological processes to work, I'd hypothesize that it might be our increased intake of refined grains, sugars and starches that's driving this epidemic of obesity and diabetes, but through insulin resistance, you see, and not necessarily through just overeating and under-exercising.
We've recruited a team of scientific rivals, the best and brightest who all have different hypotheses for what's at the heart of this epidemic.
My responsibilities were largely related to tuberculosis, and then we got struck by an epidemic of cholera.
I'd seen a lot of death, in particular epidemic death, and epidemic death has a different feel to it.
I was not aware of any epidemic problems in America.
And that combination of factors is how the AIDS epidemic in Uganda was very successfully reversed.
What do you mean, epidemic?
Briefly mentioning, we have an asthma epidemic in this country.
And so we have an epidemic in this country of depression among impoverished people that's not being picked up and that's not being treated and that's not being addressed, and it's a tragedy of a grand order.
Sex lies at the heart of an emerging epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa, which is one of only two regions in the world where HIV/AIDS is still on the rise.
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