epidemic

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

The epidemic was only officially declared in May, but it is believed the outbreak began at least three months before then, health officials said this week.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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

Lillie’s claims show the stakes for banks in the epidemic of scams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

For example, a smallpox epidemic devastated the Aztecs after the failure of the first Spanish attack in 1520 and killed Cuitlahuac, the Aztec emperor who briefly succeeded Montezuma.

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

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

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

But we need to remember that small changes in context can be just as important in tipping epidemics, even though that fact appears to violate some of our most deeply held assumptions about human nature.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell