outbreak
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The currency bloc’s energy trade deficit continued to narrow in July following a sharp deterioration earlier in the year, as the outbreak of conflict in the Middle East drove up the cost of energy imports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
In some cases, siblings appear to have died together, while other graves contain parents and children who may also have died during the same outbreak.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Taco Bell suffered a setback amid a period of growth earlier this summer when a parasitic outbreak was linked to lettuce served at Taco Bell locations in five states.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Another large-scale outbreak was reported in 2011, with more than 500 cases, when five people died after consuming meat from infected hippos.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
He is right about that: the virus was then unknown to science, and as few as two or three not-visibly-sick animals could have started the outbreak.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Resilient Shield is one of 13 core facilities that make up the CDC's new Insight Net, a national network devoted to modeling outbreaks and disease threats.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 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
There are no known cyclosporiasis outbreaks in California, but officials say case numbers are higher than they expected for this point in the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Videos shared on social media can make unverified claims appear more believable, he says, because of their immediacy, describing this as "one of the most significant differences" between the current digital environment and earlier outbreaks.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
I remember lice from the boat—Mam was terrified of us kids getting it, and she checked our heads every day, quarantining us when we heard about outbreaks in other cabins.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
Vocabulary lists containing outbreak
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