epidemic
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"Every personnel injured and every ambulance, vehicle, or piece of equipment damaged reduces the capacity to provide emergency health and humanitarian services, putting more lives at risk and making the epidemic harder to contain."
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Holding, pushing, shoving, jostling and grappling inside the penalty area became something of an epidemic in the Premier League last season.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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
All in all it was a terrific month and right in the middle of it the influenza epidemic had to break out.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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
Those factors still don’t explain, though, why the New World apparently ended up with no lethal crowd epidemics at all.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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