8 sentences with 'epidemics'
Example sentences and phrases with the word epidemics and other words derived from it.
• « Confucius advised fumigating the body and the atmosphere with plants to avoid epidemics; if the earth turned yellow, mulberry was used for this purpose. »
• « With the European settlers came a spate of epidemics to which the native peoples of the Americas had no resistance, and within a few generations the vast majority - perhaps as many as 90 per cent - of Native Americans perished as a result. »
• « When harvests failed, Europeans not only starved to death, but those who survived were left even more vulnerable to epidemics due to weakened immune systems. »
• « Not surprisingly, given the paucity of medical knowledge, epidemics of all kinds swept regularly across Europe. »
• « Cities became incubators of epidemics that were even more intense than those affecting the countryside. »
• « Cities were also especially vulnerable to epidemics, adding to the misery of urban life for the poor. »
• « At the beginning of the 20th century, the development of sulphonamides, antibiotics and vaccines led scientists to believe that they had definitively conquered disease and mastered all epidemics. Today, however, doctors are concerned about phenomena that indicate the opposite. »