outbreak
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The Bundibugyo outbreak also points to a larger weakness in preparedness strategies that concentrate heavily on the most familiar high-risk pathogens.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Palisades High athletic director Rocky Montz announced Thursday afternoon that the Dolphins have forfeited their nonleague football game at San Pedro on Friday night because of an illness outbreak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The pipeline has been a crucial shock absorber for the oil market since the outbreak of war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
More than 1,000 children have died in a measles outbreak in Bangladesh, where cases are rising again despite an emergency vaccination campaign.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
An example from history concerns the great outbreak of cholera in London more than one hundred years ago.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
There are outbreaks of measles across the country, a vaccine-preventable disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
At that time, it was killing people in small, mobile hunter-gatherer groups - long before farming and urban life created the crowded conditions usually associated with major plague outbreaks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
There are no known cyclosporiasis outbreaks in California, but officials say case numbers are higher than they expected for this point in the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
In a lengthy blog post, he admitted that the outbreaks at OpenAI showed that his AI agents "went against the spirit of the values they were taught".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
That they would all soon find themselves caught in the middle of one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in history.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
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