However, in south west Scotland alone, epidemic proportions could emerge with the next week.
Similarly, the Surgeon General just released a report noting that smoking among teens and adults had reached epidemic proportions.
Influenza has reached epidemic proportions in the US, say health officials, but the outbreak may be showing signs of having peaked.
And it is nearly impossible to contain the cholera, now at epidemic proportions with some 300 to 400 cases diagnosed per week.
Amid unsettling headlines that influenza cases have reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., financial markets have held onto their health thus far in 2013.
Adult onset diabetes is of epidemic proportions in some communities and has reached down to hit teenagers, the vast majority of them overweight and underexercised.
In Britain alcoholism among the disaffected youth has reached epidemic proportions.
Not surprising then, that the Nations Cup train is building such a powerful head of steam that football fever is sure to reach epidemic proportions by Christmas.
That may be true, but with obesity in America reaching epidemic proportions, more "average"-sized people can expect to be squeezed in coach class in the coming years.
The move coincided with World Diabetes Day and aims to make Scotland the UK leader in tackling a condition which medical experts believe will reach epidemic proportions in 10 years.
Meningitis A is rare in the UK. However, it has caused a large number of deaths in some parts of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa where it has reached epidemic proportions.
Turnover in the managerial ranks has reached epidemic proportions.
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By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.
With depression affecting some 10 percent of the American population and cited as the reason behind most suicides, National Institute of Mental Health director Dr. Steven Hyman says it would be fair to say the illness had now assumed epidemic proportions.
Michael Tripp, of Ecclesiastical Insurance which insures about 1700 churches, told BBC Breakfast the problem was of "epidemic" proportions.
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