Sentences with phrase «people during an epidemic»

In the Middle Ages it sometimes killed thousands of people during epidemics when ergot - infected rye bread was more common.

Some focused on the power of social media to reach broad swaths of people during an epidemic, relating its perks — messages can be disseminated quickly and concisely and are easily and widely shared — and its pitfalls — social media can foster rumors, and its reach doesn't include everyone.

Not exact matches

During the early weeks and months of 2016, the epidemic was claiming so many lives that county officials projected more than 500 people would die that year.

«This means people infected during this current epidemic will likely not be susceptible again.

At first, it would have spread slowly, only reaching an epidemic pace when people moved to the cities — or even, Myers suggests, through shared needles during mass vaccinations in the 1960s.

Around 1.2 million people are estimated to be infected so far during an epidemic in America.

Five million people are newly infected with AIDS during 2003, the greatest number in one year since the epidemic began.

During the smallpox epidemic of 1837 to 1838 along the Upper Missouri River, for example, some Blackfoot bands suffered heavy losses, while neighboring Gros Ventre people escaped nearly unscathed.

During an epidemic, you could test people before they get on a plane.

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.

During the flu epidemic in Panama in 1995, Elderberry juice was used to treat people with the flu virus.

Similarly, David Mackenzie's more engaging Perfect Sense (2011) takes place during an unexplained epidemic where people are losing not just their sight but all their senses, one by one.

According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province, in the province, approximately 26,000 people died from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine.

«The authors analyzed malaria statistics that were collected in Finland from 1750 to 2008 via correlation analyses between malaria frequency per million people and all variables that have been used in similar studies throughout other parts of Europe,» including temperature data, animal husbandry, consolidation of land by redistribution and household size... report that «malaria was a common endemic disease in Finland in the 18th and 19th centuries and prevalent in the whole country,» and they say that «mortality during malaria epidemics usually varied between 0.85 and 3 %.»

The number of people who are not 100 % there during a meeting has become epidemic — and is a major pet peeve of mine!