epidemic

The Russian health agency meanwhile said Wednesday that it had determined "there are no epidemic risks for the population".

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The surgeon general declared a loneliness epidemic in 2023, but it was already happening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

That gives the disease a high potential for an epidemic spread or even a global pandemic, but health officials have cautioned we have a long way to go to get to that point.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

As several experts emphasize, the scam epidemic will only be exacerbated by artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The kind that quickens during a hunt, not an epidemic.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

If so, plague was already capable of causing deadly outbreaks in small human communities thousands of years before the rise of cities, crowded settlements, and the flea-driven epidemics that would later make the disease infamous.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

Tung's rocky tenure was marked by the Asian Financial Crisis, two major epidemics, and historic protests which attracted criticism of his administration.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

"Respect for humanitarian personnel and humanitarian activities is essential to ensuring that communities affected by epidemics and other crises continue to receive the assistance and services they urgently need," it said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

He advised each of the last seven U.S. presidents on new viral epidemics faced by the world, including multiple recurrences of Ebola, HIV/AIDS, Sars-CoV-1, H1N1 Influenza, Zika and then Sars-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

When Hernando de Soto became the first European conquistador to march through the southeastern United States, in 1540, he came across Indian town sites abandoned two years earlier because the inhabitants had died in epidemics.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond