Sentences with phrase «unusually high number of cases»
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Brazil has been battling an unusually high number of yellow fever cases since December 2016, with at least 326 confirmed cases, including 220 deaths, and hundreds of additional cases under investigation — making it Brazil's worst yellow fever outbreak among humans in decades according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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An «outbreak» can usually be defined as when there are two or more cases of a similar illness in the same class or when there is an unusually high number of children with a similar illness.
In the spring of 1972, an unusually high number of rabies cases in wild animals in East Tennessee prompted the city of Morristown to pass an ordinance quarantining all dogs and cats for three months.
The Supreme Court oral argument season that just ended saw an unusually high number of state criminal cases argued — 22.