epidemic

"Post-pandemic, we have seen what's been described as a shoplifting epidemic on the streets of the UK," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

I called Erica Walker, an epidemiologist who runs Brown University’s Community Noise Lab, to rant at a polite volume about the speakerphone epidemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The causes of the epidemic were debated at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

But what will it take to truly root out what the first minister recently described as "an epidemic", and protect women who are at risk right now?

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

The final stage of this evolution is represented by the major, long-established epidemic diseases confined to humans.

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

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

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

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

All these numbers are at best rough approximations, but their implications are clear: the epidemics killed about one out of every five people on earth.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann