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Some major news outlets initially wrote off the emerging epidemic as a “gay plague,” insinuating that other Americans didn’t need to worry about it.

A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services said: “HHS’ actions mark historic progress in tackling the autism epidemic—just as Secretary Kennedy promised.”

The Princess of Wales has warned that an overload of smartphones and computer screens is creating an "epidemic of disconnection" that disrupts family life.

Over the past five years, Fiji – a tiny South Pacific nation with a population of less than a million – has become the locus of one of the world's fastest growing HIV epidemics.

Think of it — it could happen — as an epidemic of passive aggression against a brazenly aggressive president.