Trade ships brought the disease to the US, where an epidemic occurred in Philadelphia in 1780.

The interruption of disease transmission is most effective where there is good prediction of the onset of epidemic outbreaks.

The exact time of onset of gonorrhea as prevalent disease or epidemic cannot be accurately determined from the historical record.

And I ll talk more about this, but the real epidemic isn t just heart disease or obesity or smoking it s loneliness and depression.

On May 1, the hospital director reported to the local public health office the discovery of an epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system , marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.

His exposé of the SARS epidemic cover up forced China's government to confront the disease more openly and aggressively, averting a public health catastrophe.

Wine was still being used to sterilize water as late as the Hamburg cholera epidemic of 1892 in order to control the spread of the disease.

These and similar efforts can mean the difference between famine and food security, epidemic disease and health, income and utter poverty, and, most importantly, hope and despair.

The center for disease control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions, is the number one health concern for women in this country and abroad.

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.

These and similar efforts can mean the difference between famine and food security, epidemic disease and health, income and utter poverty, and, most importantly, hope and despair. Yet the window of opportunity closes quickly.

Without treatment or counselling, which are widely unavailable, and with the high degree of ignorance about the disease among the general population, this sexually active population fuels the already raging epidemic in the country.

Most mainstream scholars believe that, among the various contributing factors, Epidemic disease was the overwhelming cause of the population decline of the American natives because of their lack of immunity to new diseases brought from Europe.

A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic.

However, as the SARS epidemic flared up in 2003, Dr. Jiang realized in April that Health Ministry reports of only 19 confirmed cases of the disease in Beijing were bogus he knew of almost ten times that amount.

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.

We need a strong, effective United Nations if we are to confront successfully the many challenges we all face in the twenty first century, including terrorism, mass poverty, human rights violations, epidemic disease, environmental degradation and so many other issues.

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.

But global health emergencies like the current Ebola epidemic highlight the folly of these fiscal priorities. Though we may not lean too heavily on our health infrastructure typically, its importance becomes all too apparent when disease and death come knocking at our door.

(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.

A rare disease, also referred to as an orphan disease, is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population.

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

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

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

Should an epidemic occur or be propagated, the Ministry of Public Health shall take all necessary measures to prevent such propagation, particularly through the control of public and private sources of drinking water and of beverages, foodstuffs or other products which are likely to spread the disease.

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.

WASH and disease

Integrated disease control

(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.