Sentences with phrase «major epidemics»
The phrase "major epidemics" refers to the widespread outbreak of illnesses that affect a large number of people within a specific region or population. Full definition
One of the first major epidemics of the disease in the U.S., it devastated America's early capital.
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As a result C. difficile bacteria are now widespread in many hospitals and they are capable of causing major epidemics that are becoming increasingly frequent and severe.
Panama was one of the first countries to experience major epidemics.
Those are just five diseases that have caused major epidemics since the start of this century.
The review, co-written by Dr. Tracey and Clifford S. Deutschman, professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania, notes that unlike other major epidemic illnesses, treatment for sepsis is nonspecific and limited primarily to support of organ function and administration of intravenous fluids, antibiotics and oxygen.
Bacterial blight is one of the most destructive rice diseases in Asia and has historically been associated with major epidemics.
«When Aedes aegypti first came to the United States a few hundred years ago, there were major epidemics of yellow fever in the East and South,» Cornel said.
«It's a major epidemic, and it's got to be treated that way.»
The Australian Beef industry is recognized as being free of all major epidemic diseases of cattle including Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and is one of the few in the world to be declared a «Negligible Risk» country of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by the World Organization for Animal Health Industry.
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.
Although 18th and 19th century archaeologists had discovered plenty of diseased remains at prehistoric sites in the Americas, they found no traces of the disease in European bones until a major epidemic hit Europe about 1500, just after Columbus returned from his 1493 voyage.
While we have a major epidemic of obesity, we have a parallel epidemic of younger people trying to achieve unhealthily low body weights.»
As you may have heard, it's no secret that there's a major epidemic going on in «westernized» countries in this day and age... and that is Vitamin D deficiency in us humans... but nobody is talking about vitamin D deficiency in our animals that make up our food supply, hence further exacerbating the problem.
Meanwhile, the rise of cyberbullying has become a major epidemic affecting children and teens (56).