epidemic
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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
In the 2018-20 epidemic, the second deadliest on record, it took 10 months for Ebola cases to reach that mark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Health workers fighting the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo are threatening to strike over unpaid wages, as the World Health Organization warned Tuesday the extent of the epidemic could be four times larger than reported.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
But public health expert Mushtuq Husain says the government is refusing to accept this is "not an outbreak, it's an epidemic".
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Thus, food production and thousands of years of societal evolution following its adoption were as essential for the evolution of writing as for the evolution of microbes causing human epidemic diseases.
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
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
It estimates that some 240 million people -- in conflict zones, suffering from epidemics, or victims of natural disasters and climate change -- are in need of emergency aid.
From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025
Recognizing Ibn al-Wardi's work as a fictional composition allows historians to shift focus toward earlier, lesser-known epidemics, such as those that struck Damascus in 1258 and Kaifeng in 1232-33.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
Taken as a whole, Dobyns thought, the epidemics must have killed nine out of ten of the inhabitants of Tawantinsuyu.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Human Geography - Middle School
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