epidemic
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But the wholesale pathologizing of imperfect, yet loving, parents has created an epidemic of unnecessary cutoffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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
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
However, the epidemic dies out for any of several reasons, such as being cured by modern medicine, or being stopped when everybody around has already been infected and either becomes immune or dies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In fact, in a crowded field of more than 3,500 mosquito species, Aedes aegypti has been the vector for almost all major epidemics of some of the world’s worst mosquito-borne diseases.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 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
The TPS program gives provisional work authorization and protections from deportation to hundreds of thousands of immigrants from countries experiencing armed conflicts, natural disasters or epidemics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 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
All these numbers are at best rough approximations, but their implications are clear: the epidemics killed about one out of every five people on earth.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Human Geography - Middle School
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