6 sentences with 'epidemic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word epidemic and other words derived from it.
• « In those years, Andrew Still (1828-1917) was a simple American doctor, treating Indians and very poor people in Kansas. A cholera epidemic awakened his capacity as an investigator. »
• « It was not a divine punishment, but an epidemic that spread throughout the territory because the elementary rules of prophylaxis had not been observed. Unfortunately, such mistakes are still being made today. »
• « Rubella is an infectious, contagious, epidemic disease characterised by a measles-like rash and lymph node infarctions. »
• « Unfortunately, almost as soon as he took the throne a volcano in southern Italy, Mount Vesuvius, erupted, followed soon after by another great fire as well as an epidemic in Rome. »
• « Historians have now reached a consensus that the deadliest epidemic in medieval and early modern history began in the Mongol Khanates and spread westwards: the Black Death, or simply 'the plague', of the 14th century. »
• « These epidemic pathogens arrived all at once with the European invasion of the New World that began with Columbus. »