epidemic
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The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is moving faster than any previous epidemic of the disease and risks spreading to more countries, the head of the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
The most recent case count is also higher than any calendar year since 1991 — the final year of the nation’s last measles epidemic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
The epidemic was only officially declared in May, but it is believed the outbreak began at least three months before then, health officials said this week.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
If successful, the strategy could eventually offer a new way to combat an HIV epidemic that still kills about 600,000 people worldwide every year.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Mel’s mother died in an epidemic of what we think was pneumonia, and Spindle’s old mother died then, too.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
"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
For many people, plague brings to mind rats, crowded medieval towns, and the devastating epidemics that spread across Europe during and after the Middle Ages.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
At first glance, Villarreal may seem like a small fish, her case representing a tiny story in the larger picture of journalists all over the country covering wars, epidemics, and global economic policy.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2026
But some 8.5 million people are suffering the breakdown of food distribution, widespread unemployment, the collapse of hospitals, the failure of public sanitation and potable-water supplies, a housing deficit, and epidemics of contagious diseases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
But we need to remember that small changes in context can be just as important in tipping epidemics, even though that fact appears to violate some of our most deeply held assumptions about human nature.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Human Geography - Middle School
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