epidemic

The outbreak was already the fastest growing on record, UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said last week, warning that "the epidemic is killing someone every 30 minutes".

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

The most recent case count is also higher than any calendar year since 1991 — the final year of the nation’s last measles epidemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

If successful, the strategy could eventually offer a new way to combat an HIV epidemic that still kills about 600,000 people worldwide every year.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

The epidemic in DR Congo is now the third-largest Ebola outbreak on record.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

However, the differential mortality from epidemic diseases in traditional European societies had little to do with intelligence, and instead involved genetic resistance dependent on details of body chemistry.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Before the development of preventive vaccines, polio epidemics left many young patients unable to walk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 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

At first glance, Villarreal may seem like a small fish, her case representing a tiny story in the larger picture of journalists all over the country covering wars, epidemics, and global economic policy.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 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

Before the epidemics at least three thousand Siriono, and probably many more, lived in eastern Bolivia.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann