outbreak
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The DRC declared its 17th Ebola outbreak in May and has since reported over 9,000 cases.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Other unions have been decidedly cool to the measure, leading to a nasty outbreak of finger-pointing within the state’s organized labor ranks, as my colleagues Seema Mehta, Nicole Nixon and Taryn Luna reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Because the options market is apparently bracing for an outbreak of volatility beginning later this month.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
A Qantas flight from Italy to Australia was cancelled on Saturday, after an outbreak of bedbugs on the plane.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Or water, as I would come to see when I witnessed the outbreak of interspecies war in a highway rest stop driving through Arizona.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
After a mainly dry start, outbreaks of rain are expected to arrive in many parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland by the end of the day, with heaviest rain in the north and west.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
When several different microorganisms are associated with a disease, identifying the responsible bacteria, predicting outbreaks, and developing consistently effective treatments become more challenging.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The country has experience containing several Ebola outbreaks, including through surveillance, contact tracing and the isolation of suspected cases.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The antibiotic is among those used to treat plague in countries that see cases each year, helping to contain outbreaks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
They flew first to Geneva, to make contact with the World Health Organization, where they found that the who knew very little about the outbreaks.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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