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Example sentences for: epidemic

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As with all international declarations on HIV/AIDS, there is an absolute need to take a strong human rights approach to combating the epidemic.
But the real hope for ending the AIDS epidemic is not expensive drug therapies.
The alarming lead story in Sunday's Observer claimed that Britain's BSE (mad cow disease) epidemic "may have been caused by a scientific experiment that went wrong.
Is an unheeded child-abuse epidemic raging in America?
Outside the front of the church in the centre of Szent-háromság tér (Trinity Square) is a votive column, crowded with statues of saints and angels, which recalls a bubonic plague epidemic of the early 18th century.