Sentences with phrase «epidemic proportions where»

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Named after Lyme, Connecticut, where the disease was reported in epidemic proportions in the mid-1970s, the disease was first discovered in the United States in humans in 1975 and in dogs in 1984.

Electricity blackouts are reaching epidemic proportions in states where half of the electricity is used to pump water from depths of up to a kilometer.»

For Aboriginal communities, where imprisonment has reached epidemic proportions, this shift is long overdue.

The incidence of HIV has reached epidemic proportions in Washington, DC, where African - American women, men and adolescents represented more than 80 percent of people with new diagnoses of HIV between 2001 and 2006.

In this fast - paced, technology - driven era that we live in, where true connection is often at a premium, substance use has escalated to epidemic proportions.