In 1914 alone, louse borne epidemic typhus killed 200,000 in Serbia.

From 1918 to 1922, Russia had about 25 million infections and 3 million deaths from epidemic typhus.

Typhus Typhus is caused by rickettsia , which is transmitted to humans through lice.

One species of Rickettsia causes typhus, while another causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Millions died of drowning while some died from starvation or from waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhus.

Soon, there were incidents of typhus, measles, scarlet fever, meningitis, smallpox, dysentery and cholera. Athens' and Piraeus's faces changed.

Stigmatization is so prevalent it has been referred to as the inevitable third epidemic , occurring after the silent epidemic of HIV infection and the AIDS epidemic.

The HIV epidemic peaked.

And we have a terrible chlamydia epidemic terrible chlamydia epidemic which sticks around for many years.

A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic.

Gregory Petsko on the coming neurological epidemic

Clearly, the epidemic will continue to spread.

In addition, because obesity is not a unicentric epidemic, there's not a Patient Zero of the obesity epidemic if we find that guy, there was a spread of obesity out from him it's a multicentric epidemic.

Doctor Sami Bakir is working on the epidemic.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

This is the most devastating epidemic of our time.

In 1650, a plague epidemic killed half its population.

The epidemic affected 13 previously polio free African countries.

l UNAIDS 2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic.

(iv) Mitigating the social and economic impact of the epidemic

The resulting epizootic (animal epidemic) affected more than 280,000 cows.

Hygienic conditions were bad, including an epidemic of head lice.

Tragedy could strike in the form of a deadly epidemic.

In late November and early December 1623 he suffered a nearly fatal illness, thought to be either typhus or a combination of a cold followed by a period of fever.

There is no such thing as an HIV epidemic in Africa.

The HIV AIDS epidemic alone has killed over 20 million people.

But what I'd like to show you today is a means by which we might get not just rapid warning about an epidemic, but also actually early detection of an epidemic.

(a) Providing stronger and more visible leadership in response to the epidemic

(p) To continue to take action to fight the HIV AIDS epidemic

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It is recognized as a global epidemic by the World Health Organization.

The global road safety crisis is a modern epidemic of extraordinary proportions.

Feminization of the epidemic is occurring throughout Latin America and the Caribbean,

The Executive Director reported that the impact of the epidemic was huge.

(p) To continue to take action to fight the HIV AIDS epidemic

The epidemic represented an extraordinary threat to children in sub Saharan Africa.

Recognizing that progress has been made in containing the HIV AIDS epidemic in a small but growing number of countries, but remaining deeply concerned by the overall expansion and feminization of the epidemic,

Large families still, and the HIV epidemic brought down the countries like this.

In March 2005 an epidemic of Marburg haemorrhagic fever was declared in Angola.

But equally, as the President said, we have not turned back the epidemic.

Young women are fast becoming the new face of the HIV AIDS epidemic.

This globesity epidemic is seen in poor countries as well as in wealthy ones.

Largely due to Malawi s HIV AIDS epidemic, the country has a million such orphans.

Throughout the epidemic, citizens have largely obeyed government guidelines and followed public health prescriptions.

Cuba implemented a program of mandatory testing and quarantine early in the AIDS epidemic.