outbreak
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Economists can carefully tease apart the different causes of higher prices, in the same way that they focus on “core” inflation to isolate the general trend from unpredictable oil shocks and avian flu outbreaks.
As demonstrated by the outbreaks of the English Civil War in 1642 and the French Revolution in 1789, fiscal breakdown caused a loss of political legitimacy.
An outbreak of infection has left dogs stuck in their kennels for three weeks at a South Los Angeles shelter.
From Los Angeles Times
But with no money for quarantine or medications, there isn’t much they can do, so they expect the outbreak to get worse.
From Los Angeles Times
The cuts targeted a slate of programs aimed at tracking and curtailing HIV and other disease outbreaks, including one of California’s main early-warning systems for HIV outbreaks, state and local officials said.
From Los Angeles Times
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