Epidemic

The UN agency pointed to a context of “increased epidemic risk” and challenges for epidemic control across Africa.

After the Ebola epidemic raged through Africa in March, 2014, certain countries closed their embassies and evacuated diplomats and citizens from three West African countries hit by the epidemic.

Equatorial Guineans in China have been complying with the Chinese government’s epidemic control measures since the outset of the epidemic, he said.

He said: 'The trajectory of the epidemic in the UK is so far roughly comparable to the one in Northern Italy, but with the epidemic in Northern Italy two to three weeks ahead of the situation in the UK', according to the Telegraph.

And Governments response as Samoa now reels in the middle of a State of Emergency of the measles epidemic that has taken 16 lives since the epidemic was declared 16 October – five weeks ago.

A month or so ago, City Managing Director Mike DeBerardinis presented the results of The Task Force to Combat the Opioid Epidemic, which was empaneled to address our genuinely alarming opioid epidemic.

After the devastating 1850 flood, Sacramento experienced a cholera epidemic and a flu epidemic, which crippled the town for several years.

For infectious diseases it helps to determine if a disease outbreak is sporadic (occasional occurrence), endemic (regular cases often occurring in a region), epidemic (an unusually high number of cases in a region), or pandemic (a global epidemic).

In 1689, Austrians seized Skopje which was already weakened by a cholera epidemic. citation The same day, general Silvio Piccolomini set fire to the city to end the epidemic.

Near the beginning of the epidemic, Dr. Alexander Cruickshank Houston installed a chlorine disinfection system just ahead of the poorly operating slow sand filter to kill the bacteria causing the epidemic.

The possibility that movement disorders, including Tourette syndrome, might have an organic origin was raised when an encephalitis epidemic from 1918–1926 led to a subsequent epidemic of tic disorders.

Though epidemic typhus is commonly thought to be restricted to areas of the developing world, serological examination of homeless persons in Houston found evidence for exposure to the bacterial pathogens that cause epidemic typhus and murine typhus.

Under the 1999 U.S. Government's Leadership and Investment in Fighting an Epidemic (LIFE) Initiative, CDC through the BOTUSA Project has undertaken many projects and has assisted many organizations in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana.

Adults have also been affected by this epidemic.

A few months before the outbreak of the Boman Kohinoor epidemic when I was in command.

Although we knew from the start that a respiratory virus caused Covid-19, it was not at all clear when the epidemic struck what we should do about it.

A Mexican oil company hires him to eradicate a Graboid epidemic killing more people daily.

And a judge warned cannabis farms being run by Albanian criminal networks had reached 'epidemic levels' and had, in his judgment, 'become something of an industry'.

And something you’re focusing on there is the way in which the opioid epidemic hasn’t just harmed those who have been killed or have ended up in rehab or struggling with addiction but how many children have simply lost parents.

An epidemic is a disease that affects a large number of people within a community, population, or region.