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Example sentences for: epidemic

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When the SARS epidemic showed the first signs of waning, the World Health Organization proclaimed that the turnaround was a testament to the efficient response of health systems worldwide and justified its decisive action in issuing a global alert.
It is most perplexing then, that Sullivan, who is writing about the end of an epidemic, after all, never mentions the word "vaccine" in his article.
The pharmaceutical industry used similar objections to ward off regulations before the thalidomide epidemic ushered in requirements for pharmaceutical agents to undergo extensive premarket testing in clinical trials [80].
Kendall's results can be broken down to show that this quantity is equal to the sum of the average final epidemic size and another quantity (x) minus one.
Widespread use of the drug thalidomide during the 1950s led to an epidemic of phocomelia, an absence or deformity of limbs and other congenital defects in children exposed in utero to the drug [72].