epidemic

Example Sentences

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Soldiers died in combat, from wounds, and most often from epidemics of infectious diseases such as dysentery, typhoid fever, or measles.

From Literature

But some 8.5 million people are suffering the breakdown of food distribution, widespread unemployment, the collapse of hospitals, the failure of public sanitation and potable-water supplies, a housing deficit, and epidemics of contagious diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal

This isn’t due to a sudden epidemic of disabling illnesses.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was a movie he’d watched at school, in science . . . the one about that horrible epidemic maybe?

From Literature

The Liberal Democrats have argued that the country faces a "silent epidemic of loneliness" and that a lack of community spaces is forcing people to find human interaction online.

From BBC