Sentences with phrase «death during the epidemic»

Much has changed since the artist's death during the epidemic in 1996, and yet here we are today, with Rose Garden overtures to the Religious Right at the White House last month and debates, fiercer than ever, over our health care system.

Not exact matches

Ingmar Bergman's famous 1957 movie The Seventh Seal takes place during the 14th century, when Europe is in the midst of a major epidemic of the bubonic plague — the Black Death — which ultimately killed about half the population.

The Black Plague killed one European in four during the 14th century; influenza took at least 20 million lives between 1918 and 1919; the AIDS epidemic has produced a similar death toll and is still going strong.

«West Africa will see much more suffering and many more deaths during childbirth and from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV — AIDS, enteric and respiratory illnesses, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental health during and after the Ebola epidemic,» they write.

While there have been attempts to estimate real - time death risks during epidemics, such statistical models require data from large numbers of patients in the order of thousands and therefore could not be applied to the 2015 MERS epidemic in the Republic of Korea with small patient numbers.

Another is a series over an antibiotic known by many names, such as «Septrin» and «Bactrim», which, although largely banned in the UK after my investigation during the 1990s, continues to cause a worldwide epidemic of deaths and suffering.

Nomads migrating into Europe during the Stone Age may have brought the plague, setting the stage for epidemics like the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people.

[51] It was estimated that there were 3 million cases and 100,000 deaths due to pellagra during the epidemic.

Violence: Riots, deaths and the breakdown of society occur during a worldwide epidemic.

What do the black death epidemic, that ravaged much of Europe during the 17th century, and an epic five - hour play performed over 100 times in the space of a few months have in common?

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / During and after the AIDS epidemic, gay artists like Carlos Alfonzo, Ross Bleckner, Robert Gober, and Keith Haring used visual art to convey the tragedy of mass premature death that gutted the art world, as well as the political injustice of the U.S. government's refusal to recognize the gravity of the disease.

H Zinsser's book, «Rats, lice and History» refers to epidemics of dancing mania in the Middle Ages, known as St John's dance or St Vitas» dance, that became common during and after the Black Death and presenting none of the characteristics of epidemic infectious diseases of the nervous system.

While the share of doctor visits for flu - like symptoms plateaued during the week ended Feb. 10, indicating that flu season is waning, the number of deaths from this year's outbreak could outpace those from late 2009, which was marked by the swine - flu epidemic.