Sentences with phrase «epidemic sweeping»

There is an epidemic sweeping the career world right now — career anxiety.

The heroin epidemic sweeping across the nation has caused the DEA to declare heroin as the top drug threat in the United States.

The story follows Mario and Luigi as they try to find a cure for the Blorbs epidemic sweeping the Mushroom Kingdom.

Philip Roth's latest novel begins in 1944 with a polio epidemic sweeping Newark, New Jersey.

A special report in the October issue of Glamour delves into the issue, warning of a fraud epidemic sweeping online dating sites.

There were also questions about whether the money would supplement existing anti-addiction programs or start new efforts to fight the opioid abuse epidemic sweeping New York and other states.

With an obesity epidemic sweeping the rich western world and creating a generation of overweight youngsters, cutting down on meat intake is one way to ensure they eat well and stay fit.

The combined pressures of climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.

The stereotype - shattering nature of the opioid drug crisis, both in Erie County and nationwide, has not gone unnoticed by activists in the black community who remember when the crack epidemic swept through low - income, urban neighborhoods in the 1980s and early»90s, leading to a spike in violent crime and homicides.

A lice - borne typhus epidemic swept westward from Russia in the early 20th century, and by World War II, German troops in trenches on the Eastern Front were falling fast to the disease.

Three years after an Ebola epidemic swept across West Africa, researchers have found a clue to how the virus may live on in the eyes of survivors suffering from uveitis — one of the more serious and common complications of the disease.

In 1962, a strange epidemic swept through several communities in Tanganyika, present - day Tanzania.

Shortly thereafter, the species» survival was put to the test; a Sylvatic Plague epidemic swept through the local prairie dog population in 1985, infecting the population.

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It's an epidemic that some want to sweep under the «carpet» aka the American private prison system that encourages recidivism.

A few epidemics of questioning have occasionally swept the land — the countercultural «60s, for instance — but they didn't last long, and were easily co-opted.

They devoted themselves to the poor, preaching, catechizing, hearing confessions, serving the sick, and giving themselves to the sufferers from the many epidemics which swept across Europe.

On Saturday night in Hampton Bays, as a cold rain fell on a large crowd of the broken - hearted, speaker after speaker told deeply personal stories about how the opioid epidemic that is sweeping America has changed their lives forever.

Officials say the statistics could have been even worse if not for a host of initiatives that the government, health officials and medical community have taken to address a drug epidemic that has swept through communities across the United States with devastating results.

Amidst a rash of recent overdoses in the village of Mamaroneck, the mayor, Police Department, schools and concerned residents have begun to galvanize in an attempt to fight back against a sweeping opiate epidemic.

The opioid epidemic continues to sweep the nation.

A team of New York Times reporters described how, for a fleeting moment in the spring of 2014, the Ebola epidemic that subsequently swept through West Africa might have been stopped.

But it might also be an unforeseen consequence of the epidemic of phylloxera that has swept through California.

How could such a sluggish disease have given rise to three sweeping epidemics?

But the drug has been linked to an opioid addiction epidemic that has swept Canada and the US.

A family friend, veterinary pathologist Sharad Ajinkya, mentioned that he'd been studying a viral epidemic that was sweeping through poultry flocks, killing hundreds of thousands of chickens.

A second epidemic directly linked to the drop in vaccination coverage is measles, which has swept through Syria and spread to refugee camps and local populations in neighboring Jordan and Lebanon.

What can you do when there's an epidemic of flu sweeping the country and the CDC has warned that the flu vaccine may not be as effective as in other years for this year's strain of the virus?

... And they are all contributing to the epidemic of Protein Guilt that is sweeping the health and fitness community!

This began the subsequent blueberry epidemic that has swept North America.

Over consumption of processed sugar has been blamed for contributing to serious health problems like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and the obesity epidemic, which has been sweeping western nations.

Many years later, when that girl grows up (to be voiced in English by Emily Blunt), Jiro will meet her again and fall in love with her, only to see their future threatened by the tuberculosis epidemic that swept Japan between the two world wars.

However, soon after their wedding, Henry abruptly quits medical school to create a mail - order patent medicine called Wickett's Remedy, and just as Lydia begins to adjust to her husband's new vocation, the infamous Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 begins its deadly sweep across the world, irrevocably changing their lives.

A heatwave is sweeping the city — and so is a deadly smallpox epidemic.

«This partnership represents a major commitment to help put a stop to the epidemic of homeless pets sweeping our nation,» says Chris Wilson, the company's executive vice president for product development.

As an artist who survived the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, Gober experienced first - hand the deep and fathomless sense of loss as loved ones ravaged by disease were swept away in its wake.

Chadwick's Viral Landscapes (1989 - 90), made at the height of the Aids epidemic, connect the changes in her body with those of the wave - shattered shoreline, superimposing outsize photographs with magnified images of the artist's cellular tissue in a sweeping panorama of time and tide.

-- http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/global-warming-could-be-causing-dogs-to-become-depressed-say-pet-behaviourists-a6854006.html Leading pet behaviourists say the number of depressed and unsettled dogs they have seen in recent months is unprecedented... A boredom epidemic is sweeping through Britain's dog population — and global warming could be to blame.

The Commissioner also met with members of the public at the Ne - Chee Friendship Centre to discuss, among other things, the despair that might be a contributing factor in the suicide epidemic that has been sweeping northern First Nations communities.

We're here with a slew of safety tips to make sure you don't become a victim of the epidemic that's sweeping the nation like a bounce house swept up in a strong gust of wind.

The explosion in type 2 diabetes worldwide can be directly linked to the epidemic of obesity that has swept so many countries, with -LSB-...]