I just don't believe it's an epidemic like this.

To say ahh, if this happens then we are going to have a pandemic?

Dreaded among breeders is a highly contagious disease called septic fever.

Yes, the world faces its first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years.

The rates of these two diseases are showing a tendency to increase in the years 2000 and 2001 and, as a consequence, they appear as epidemics.

8. Besides the erosive effect of endemic malaria, the disease also strikes in epidemic form.

In June, the World Health Organization declared the first global flu pandemic in 41 years.

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

There is some indication that it may buy you some time in the midst of an outbreak.

The spectre of avian flu threatens parts of Asia and Europe and the disease could become a global pandemic.

I'd hypothesize that it might be our increased intake of refined grains, sugars and starches that's driving this epidemic of obesity and diabetes, but through insulin resistance, you see, and not necessarily through just overeating and under exercising.

But he placed the likelihood of one such event above all others at close to 100 percent, and that is a severe flu pandemic.

But so would the appearance of a new virulent pandemic disease in a poor country with no effective health care system.

Kuwait proposes to add a clinical epidemiological component that would involve the physical examination of 5 to 10 per cent of the subjects at five year intervals.

Mauritanian doctor Moktar Ould Weddih casts doubts on his Facebook about the real reason behind deaths. According to him it is not the heatwave but a pandemic disease

16. Cholera is spread like other diarrhoeal diseases but is distinguished by appearing periodically in epidemic form, for reasons which remain unclear, in developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Indeed, most Latin American countries far exceed the threshold of 10 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants that the World Health Organization uses to define an epidemic level of violence.

Recently, the US Senate approved spending 8 billion to stockpile vaccines and other drugs to help prevent a possible bird flu epidemic. Other governments have already spent tens of millions on vaccines and other preventive measures.

WHO supported the Ministry of Health of Malawi in reviewing the country apos s health needs arising from drought and cholera and dysentery epidemics, and is currently assisting in emergency preparedness against diarrhoeal outbreaks, with funding of US 109,000.

For example, the first smallpox epidemic was recorded in Egypt in 1350 BC. It reached China in 49 AD, Europe after 700, the Americas in 1520, and Australia in l789.

The Sudan has porous borders with a number of high HIV AIDS endemic countries and is now developing an epidemiological pattern in the southern States which is similar to that of the bordering countries.

101. Apart from intestinal and parasitic diseases and droplet infections which have also occurred in epidemic form (in 1991, 188 epidemics with 3,693 sick people and in 1992, 249 epidemics with 9,488 sick people), of significance is also the heightened risk of tuberculosis.