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Epidemic in sentence

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One of the things that concerns us is whether or not there really is an epidemic of autism.
The example that he gives is the smallpox epidemic.
They were obvious that what was going on was an epidemic of accounting control fraud building up.
In 2000, the year 2000, that is over a year before Enron fails, by the way, the honest appraisers got together a formal petition begging the federal government to act, and the industry to act, to stop this epidemic of appraisal fraud.
This was an epidemic of accounting control fraud led by the banks.
But that is strange, because compared to most high-income countries, child poverty is an epidemic in the United States.
Now, if we are going to disrupt what doctors call "the global tobacco epidemic," we need every sector of society to stand side by side and be part of the solution.
Many stayed for months, even through the cholera epidemic.
There's a hidden epidemic in medicine.
In fact, I believe that we are in the middle of a global epidemic of a terrible new illness known as MAS: Mindless Accept Syndrome.
Actually, I have evidence to prove that MAS is a global epidemic.
Now, this problem is not only a huge problem for the military, but it's also a huge problem that's epidemic throughout the entire medical field, which is how do we actually look at wounds and how do we stop them quickly in a way that can work with the body?
Because when you spend a lot of time going from place to place, country to country, and city to city, the degree to which women, for example, are violated, and the epidemic of it, and the kind of ordinariness of it, is so devastating to one's soul that you have to take the time, or I have to take the time now, to process that.
The reason that Lofa County is so important is because about five months ago, when the epidemic was just starting to escalate, Lofa County was right at the center, the epicenter of this epidemic.
And so Peter Clement was charged with driving that 12-hour-long rough road from Monrovia, the capital, up to Lofa County, to try and help bring control to the escalating epidemic there.
And for this reason, they were deeply disturbed, deeply alarmed and the entire epidemic was unraveling in front of them.
And the reason that this is such an important story, ladies and gentlemen, is because today, this county, which is right at the center of this epidemic you've been watching, you've been seeing in the newspapers, you've been seeing on the television screens, today Lofa County is nearly eight weeks without seeing a single case of Ebola.
Well, for that, we have to go back 12 months, to the start of this epidemic.
And what happened in these countries then, many of you saw, again, on the television, read about in the newspapers, we saw the health system start to collapse under the weight of this epidemic.
What they decided to do was they would first try and slow down this epidemic by rapidly building as many beds as possible in specialized treatment centers so that they could prevent the disease from spreading from those were infected.
Perhaps, the older ones among you remember the polio epidemic that occurred in Argentina in 1956.
During the polio epidemic, thousands of people died.
I know this because I read about it, because thanks to vaccines, my generation was lucky to not live through an epidemic as terrible as this.
It is called the porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV), and this virus has the potential to cause a viral epidemic similar to HIV.
But we've actually invested very little in a system to stop an epidemic.
We're not ready for the next epidemic.
And a large epidemic would require us to have hundreds of thousands of workers.
The failure to prepare could allow the next epidemic to be dramatically more devastating than Ebola Let's look at the progression of Ebola over this year.
The source of the virus could be a natural epidemic like Ebola, or it could be bioterrorism.
And you can see over 30 million people died from that epidemic.
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