Sentences with phrase «spread during an epidemic»

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43 The Prayer Book uses it only of bishops; in monastic usage the tide «Father» for abbots, or for older, professed, or ordained members of the monastic family generally is ancient; in modern times it gradually spread, through the active missionary orders doubtless, to the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland; the heroic ministry of Charles Lowder and other priests during the cholera epidemic of 1866 in London seems to have started the common use of «Father» for nonmonastic Anglicans.

The WHO's declaration of a global public health emergency is the third ever made under international regulations enacted in 2007; the first came in 2009 during the H1N1 influenza epidemic and the second in May, warning of the potential for international spread of the polio virus.

One of the most critical aspects of the AIDS epidemic is also one of the least researched and most poorly understood — the mechanisms by which HIV spreads during sex.

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.

This, say the researchers, shows that media coverage is a powerful tool to help halt the spread of disease during an epidemic.

Furthermore, the mechanism that drives the spread of plague during the the smoldering, unnoticed period might be different than during a full - blown epidemic.