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outbreak
noun as in sudden happening
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Example Sentences
In the Oregon case, the person contracted the disease from a previously reported infected commercial poultry operation outbreak in Clackamas County.
Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking the H5N1 avian flu that is widespread in wild birds worldwide and causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows.
One year later, a measles outbreak infected 57,000 Samoans and killed 83 of them, including children.
Lawyers representing passengers who travelled on P&O's Ventura said there had been "repeated outbreaks" of illness onboard between April and June.
He's closely linked to a measles outbreak that led to the deaths of more than 80 people in Samoa, most of them children, with his fearmongering about vaccines:
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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