The phrase
"massive epidemics" refers to widespread outbreaks of infectious diseases that affect a large number of people in a certain area at the same time. It means that many individuals in a population are getting sick with a specific disease, causing it to rapidly spread and become a significant health issue.
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Synonyms for individual words can be found below.
«massive»
«epidemic»
Sentences with «massive epidemics»
- Other viral diseases spread by the same mosquitoes — including dengue and chikungunya — that have caused massive epidemics south of the U.S. border have triggered only small outbreaks in the United States. (sciencemag.org)
- Daryl Domman, first author on the Latin American study from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: «Our data show that when a 7PET pandemic strain enters into Latin America from elsewhere, it can cause massive epidemics, like those seen in Peru in the 1990s and Haiti in 2010. (sciencedaily.com)
- The same year, when the first reports of a massive epidemic of a fungal disease called coffee leaf rust were circulating in Central America, Dr. Schilling sounded alarms and organized the first Coffee Leaf Rust Summit in Guatemala. (worldcoffeeresearch.org)
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