Malaria epidemics were once commonplace in places as far north as Russia and Finland.
Yamir Moreno of the University of Zaragoza, who studies complex networks and spreading patterns of epidemics.
So far in this century, three epidemics of it have been let loose in the world.
Soon mobile technology could play a large role in detecting, mapping and responding to epidemics.
Research institutions can spot storm systems, epidemics and other critical patterns in their formative stages.
It may have resulted in whooping cough epidemics in California and measles outbreaks in England.
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We were talking about epidemics, pandemics, and plagues, but we were watching the woman.
He found that epidemics only have a big economic effect if they are pervasive and protracted.
Existing regulations allow the organisation to take information about epidemics only from official government notifications.
But he adds that such large losses to a population are not unusual in epidemics.
Yet, this data could help us and the medical community better address the rising obesity and diabetes epidemics.
America, for example, has asked that only drugs for AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious epidemics be included.
The perplexing thing about diarrheal disease is that unlike many other global health epidemics, cheap diarrhea treatments exist.
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She will deal with security and policing, as well as national emergencies ranging from forest fires to epidemics.
It is this continual process of genetic drift gives rise to the seasonal epidemics of flu and norovirus.
Following the recent outbreak in Swansea, it is feared similar epidemics could spread.
"Spanish Flu" is far from a footnote in history for scientists trying to protect us from future flu epidemics.
This resulted in needless epidemics in many countries, and hundreds of deaths worldwide.
As with most emerging epidemics, we usually ignore them until people start dying.
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Health officials have warned epidemics similar to the one in Swansea, which has seen nearly 900 cases, could occur anywhere.
Often, epidemics begin with a low, steady rate of cases, followed by a sharp acceleration to a much higher peak.
Fortunately, such a doomsday scenario is unlikely: none of the other recent outbreaks of avian flu resulted in human epidemics.
There had never been epidemics of smallpox before the vaccine, but many outbreaks swept across Europe in the nineteenth century.
The plan is to vaccinate 300 million adults between the ages of 1 through 29 by 2015 to stop the epidemics.
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Are we saying that as a society, when we have major social epidemics, those are off limits to the comedy stage?
Outside the lab, rescue workers in the less-developed world might use portable gene machines to trace bacteria or viruses causing waterborne epidemics.
The Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) is a group of 21 stakeholders working together on eliminating these devastating meningitis epidemics in Africa.
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Only a handful of wheat varieties have any resistance to Ug99, implying that harvests could fail even more completely than during earlier epidemics.
The doctors are injecting the children with oily chloramphenicol, endorsed by the World Health Organization as the recommended treatment for bacterial meningitis epidemics.
"At best using single antigens would leave many more children unprotected for extended periods and would raise the likelihood of epidemics, " he said.
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