epidemic

In this episode, Willa investigates why stores lock everything up now—and whether there’s really a shoplifting epidemic.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

With the disease still spreading five months into the epidemic, the nursery in the remote east is one of 12 receiving the children of those killed by the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

They distinguished themselves by bringing a cholera epidemic in a temporary prison at the paediatric hospital under control and were subsequently taken to Saudi Hospital.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The federal case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

The term hate crime was coined in response to what was described at the time as an “epidemic” of neo-Nazi and skinhead violence, although in retrospect it’s unclear whether any such epidemic existed.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

More than half of the deaths were due to the collapse of the health system, along with epidemics and famine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

If so, plague was already capable of causing deadly outbreaks in small human communities thousands of years before the rise of cities, crowded settlements, and the flea-driven epidemics that would later make the disease infamous.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

Tung's rocky tenure was marked by the Asian Financial Crisis, two major epidemics, and historic protests which attracted criticism of his administration.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

But it remains highly controversial, not least because Kenya must hand over personal health data of its citizens, which could be used by US pharmaceutical labs to prepare for future epidemics.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

These are the kinds of people who make epidemics of disease tip.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell