For instance, where do epidemics fall?

Nicholas Christakis How social networks predict epidemics

Malaria, meningitis and cholera epidemics occur regularly.

(c) Detect early, contain or prevent epidemics

I've seen such epidemics before, haven't you?

Multiple vaccination campaigns have successfully averted major epidemics.

Resulting epidemics could devastate whole settlements and towns.

Some are weather related, human rights related, epidemics.

Epidemics and pandemics come in many shapes and forms.

And, in fact, this idea can be used not just to predict epidemics of germs, but also to predict epidemics of all sorts of kinds.

Notable epidemics of ergotism occurred up into the 19th century.

Yet such epidemics frequently accompany natural and man made disasters.

This whole country is run on epidemics. Where've you been?

Epidemics of communicable diseases are now sweeping most of the continent.

It would seem more accurate to refer to these episodes as speculative epidemics.

No dengue fever epidemics occurred in 1999 2000 while prevention and surveillance continues.

Great epidemics have always been a threat to the world apos s nations.

67. Malaria epidemics are known risks in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Namibia.

A US 182,000 programme for emergency preparedness against diarrhoeal epidemics is being implemented.

In my view, bubbles are social epidemics, fostered by a sort of interpersonal contagion.

So if you really want to solve the problem of epidemics and so forth,

Epidemics of big business price fixing, crooked TV shows, incometax finagling, soupedup expense accounts.

And then there are global fears linked to climate change, epidemics, cyber wars, and more.

Epidemics have been avoided by a coordinated preparedness and efficient intervention of the humanitarian community.

The situation is compounded by the increase of worldwide epidemics such as the avian flu.

We can actually use this to contain outbreaks of mosquito born diseases, of epidemics, right?

But the most common cause of epidemics are viruses, such as measles, influenza and HlV.

Further epidemics of the disease occurred in North America in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

Priority has been given to the control of epidemics and the strengthening of the health sector.

76. Similarly, for diarrhoeal diseases and cholera, additional global and regional resources are mobilized to combat epidemics but are often used only for immediate response activities and are withdrawn when the epidemic subsides, setting the stage for further epidemics.

For measles alone the coverage was reduced to 80.64 per cent in that same year, which resulted in children contracting this disease with graver complications, and even in epidemics (8 epidemics in 1992, 27 in 1993) with 19 deaths.

Let s turn back the clock a dozen years. In 2000, Africa was struggling with three major epidemics.

Since then, the Global Fund has played a key role in reversing the course of these epidemics.

All the above measures have helped to curb epidemics, as well as drug abuse and drug dependency.

It also arranges for the collection and distribution of medicine, especially during epidemics and after natural disasters.

The resulting knowledge benefits everyone by stopping epidemics and limiting the economic and human toll of widespread illness.

The expulsion of the aid agencies has put over a million Darfuris at risk of epidemics and starvation.

We must give poor countries access to the emergency lifesaving drugs they need to fight those infectious epidemics.

The epidemic (which is actually a multiplicity of epidemics) affects different regions and different population groups very differently.

It also arranges for the collection and distribution of medicine, especially in cases of epidemics and natural disasters.

WHO assisted in assessing Zambia apos s health needs arising from drought and cholera, dysentery and meningitis epidemics.

101. Apart from intestinal and parasitic diseases and droplet infections which have also occurred in epidemic form (in 1991, 188 epidemics with 3,693 sick people and in 1992, 249 epidemics with 9,488 sick people), of significance is also the heightened risk of tuberculosis.

Rather, each State should feel protected against insecurity and arbitrariness, against hunger, against poverty, against epidemics of all kinds.

Cholera epidemics also draw attention to the need for investments in education, sanitation and safe food and water programmes.

As if to complete this picture, natural disasters drought and desertification compete with epidemics such as AIDS and malaria.