epidemic

Russia's public health agency, Rospotrebnadzor, said Wednesday that there was no risk of an epidemic among the wider public.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Health officials in Uganda, which had 20 cases earlier in the epidemic, didn’t respond to a request for comment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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

Paul Keane, general manager of watersports charity Brentford Community Boathouse, told the Brentford and Syon Area Forum that the problem had been worsened by the "epidemic of heat" this summer.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Mel’s mother died in an epidemic of what we think was pneumonia, and Spindle’s old mother died then, too.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

Plague is often linked to rats, packed medieval cities, and the devastating epidemics that tore through Europe during and after the Middle Ages.

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

According to Barnes, this is actually quite typical, historically: “Societies forget epidemics quickly,” he said.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

But it remains highly controversial, not least because Kenya must hand over personal health data of its citizens, which could be used by US pharmaceutical labs to prepare for future epidemics.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

The balance of this book will take these ideas and apply them to other puzzling situations and epidemics from the world around us.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell