epidemic

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At the same time, chronic pain remains a widespread and costly condition, often described as a 'silent epidemic.'

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

The outcome of the Los Angeles trial is expected to establish a precedent for resolving other lawsuits that blame social media for fueling an epidemic of mental and emotional trauma.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

"We have managed to control the HIV epidemic and we are moving towards eliminating Aids as a public health problem in Senegal," Dr Safiétou Thiam told BBC News Afrique.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

A scruffy-faced Radcliffe, twinkling accessible geniality in jeans and a sweatshirt, zips up and down the cavernous theater as though waging a one-man campaign against the isolation epidemic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Friday, she had to work straight through—a sixteen-hour shift—because the company was short-handed on account of an influenza epidemic.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith