Mugabe's government has declared the cholera epidemic a national emergency and called on international organizations for help.
In 2001, with U.S. leadership, the United Nations Security Council declared the AIDS epidemic a security issue.
The infections are nonetheless reviving fears among the public of an epidemic a decade after a devastating outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which crippled tourism in China and Hong Kong.
With nearly 1m earthquake victims still displaced, a cholera epidemic and a political vacuum, Haiti faces many pressing tasks.
Much of the running commentary on Twitter is a reaction to news events, so when a flu epidemic becomes a national news story, the number of people talking about it spikes, regardless of their own health status.
We should not have a childhood obesity epidemic and a problem with overactive kids.
But the court said the animals should have a second home to stop them being eliminated by an epidemic or a fire.
The bill, which San Francisco officials hope other cities will adopt in battling a child obesity epidemic, was a defeat for McDonald's, which led the fight against the measure.
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And he would only claim that Britain COULD be heading for its worst epidemic for a decade.
On the other hand, the obesity epidemic is a national crisis.
Prof Harding, of Cardiff University, described wounds as a "silent epidemic" that were a "growing burden to our healthcare resources".
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The results, which I read about on a story on prdaily.com, speak to a growing epidemic as I see it which is a combination of apathy and fear when it comes to brands and Twitter.
Zimbabwe is in the grip of a cholera epidemic that has left nearly 800 dead, a World Health Organization official said Wednesday.
At the turn of the 20th century, the United States had managed to avoid a major smallpox epidemic for the better part of a generation.
"This is a growing epidemic, " says Dr. Hamish Cameron, a vice president at AstraZeneca.
"These infant deaths are preventable accidents that remain a silent epidemic in our country, " says Michael Goodstein, a member of the AAP's task force on SIDS and a neonatologist at York Hospital in York, Pa.
Childhood obesity is widely acknowledged to be not only an epidemic but also a major threat to national security.
What's more, the current obesity epidemic may fuel a rise in the rates.
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The United Nations released today its annual report on the AIDS epidemic, showing a drop in estimated infections from 42 million people to 40 million.
This latter name has lost favor as the obesity epidemic has caused a number of people to be diagnosed with type 2 as early as 10 or 11.
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With the epidemic spreading, a vaccine cannot come soon enough.
So far, there have been no confirmed cases of cholera in the camps of Dubea, but there's an epidemic raging through a series of camps to the west of here.
An annual flu shot is a must, and she got one for whooping cough too when an epidemic of pertussis erupted a few years ago.
Masahiro Kawai, an official at the Asian Development Bank, this week urged the region to prepare for a slump in the dollar, the probability of which he compared to that of a global bird-flu epidemic: it is far from a certainty but would have a tremendous impact if it happened.
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The best way to prevent a human epidemic, of course, is to end the avian one.
Quite the contrary, its failure to sell triggered a Schadenfreude epidemic throughout the art world.
Several decades later the epidemic has passed and a period of relative temperance sets in.
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