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Example sentences for: pandemic

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At the same time, life-threatening infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria continue to affect billions of people, and a rapidly escalating HIV/AIDS pandemic now kills more than 8,300 people each day [1].
In the public health arena, the current United States infectious disease surveillance infrastructure was recently the subject of an extensive review by the US Department of Health and Human Services [ 1 ] . That review identified substantial weaknesses in existing capacity to detect four major threats to public health - emerging infections, antimicrobial resistance, bioterrorism, and pandemic influenza.
There is another reason why a best-guess timeline is essential: realistic expectations about an AIDS vaccine would stress the urgency of combating the AIDS pandemic over the next decade—and maybe longer—in the absence of an effective vaccine.
Kolata, a science writer for the New York Times , has produced "an extraordinary account of one of the most significant public health tragedies of this century" (Elizabeth Whelan, the Washington Times ). Even more fascinating than her account of the original pandemic, Kolata tails the various groups of scientists and the divergent paths they traveled as they unraveled the virus' secrets.
Exotic, strange-sounding, and unintelligible words, whether authentic and foreign or artificial and spontaneously made up on the spot, are an age-old and pandemic device for creating an aura of mystery, holiness, or magic.