epidemic
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In this episode, Willa investigates why stores lock everything up now—and whether there’s really a shoplifting epidemic.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
Speaking at the NEXTPreidict summit in New York, Mackenzie uses the example of airline stocks during the Covid-19 epidemic as retail investors flexing their control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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
In an interview with BBC Scotland News, Farrell described the scale of violence against women and girls in Scotland as an "epidemic", and that police forces were not immune to the problem .
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Seven years older than Paul Jennings, Todd Payne was two when his father and brother died in a yellow fever epidemic.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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
"Respect for humanitarian personnel and humanitarian activities is essential to ensuring that communities affected by epidemics and other crises continue to receive the assistance and services they urgently need," it said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
The infectious diseases that visit us as epidemics, rather than as a steady trickle of cases, share several characteristics.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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