epidemic
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That law doesn’t necessarily protect consumers from the recent epidemic of scams, where people are tricked into sending money to bad actors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Loneliness is an epidemic among both young people and older people. Living together helps bring different energy, skills and opportunities into the space that we wouldn’t normally have. It helps counter stereotypes.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Last year’s tally was the highest in a single year since the devastating 1989-91 measles epidemic, which resulted in more than 55,000 cases and 166 suspected deaths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Complicating the response effort, health workers at the epicentre of the epidemic told AFP they had not been paid since the virus was detected.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
By the end of the first week of September, the yellow fever epidemic had driven the state government from Philadelphia and crippled the city’s administration.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
According to Barnes, this is actually quite typical, historically: “Societies forget epidemics quickly,” he said.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
For many people, plague brings to mind rats, crowded medieval towns, and the devastating epidemics that spread across Europe during and after the Middle Ages.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
He said Yemenis would be "very vulnerable to epidemics" this year, warning: "A humanitarian crisis in Yemen is a risk to the Arabian Peninsula. Cholera, measles and polio cross borders."
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026
Authorities have officially classified AI as a major potential threat, adding it alongside earthquakes and epidemics to its National Emergency Response Plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
When Hernando de Soto became the first European conquistador to march through the southeastern United States, in 1540, he came across Indian town sites abandoned two years earlier because the inhabitants had died in epidemics.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Human Geography - Middle School
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