outbreak
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The week will also offer more detail about how the Iran war, rising costs and the widening cyclospora outbreak are affecting what people buy in grocery stores and restaurants.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
The prison's packed population, along with its unsanitary conditions, enabled cholera to spread rapidly during an outbreak four years ago, rights groups have said.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Investigators are typically working weeks after an outbreak begins, when the food in question has been consumed or discarded, or contamination is no longer detectable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Within a few short weeks, an ongoing outbreak of Cyclospora, a foodborne parasite that can contaminate raw fruits and vegetables — and lead to several unpleasant gastrointestinal symptoms — has fueled a nationwide panic.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
And through Twitter, Facebook, and PIH’s own website, when new health and humanitarian crises occur, such as the January 2010 earthquake and the 2010-2012 cholera outbreak in Haiti, the response can be instantaneous.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Bagged salad mixes and kits, which have been linked to previous outbreaks in the United States and Canada, were suddenly a no-go.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
One of the outbreaks, which health authorities linked to shredded lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms, surfaced the important role played by a sprawling supply chain of farms, processors and distributors in the U.S. and Mexico.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Recent outbreaks have taken root in places where vaccine hesitancy is common, including among Mennonites in Texas and evangelical Slavs in South Carolina.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
One of the largest cyclosporiasis outbreaks in North America was linked, through data collection from clinicians and laboratories, to imported raspberries from an estimated five Guatemalan farms in 1996.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
These outbreaks ended, for most of us, at the end of the second month.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
Vocabulary lists containing outbreak
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