Morgan Fairchild

When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.

American Actress

Seth Berkley

As more and more people adopt an urban lifestyle and cities continue to swell, not only does the risk of urban epidemics increase - something we haven't seen much of for decades - but the need for larger emergency stockpiles can increase, too.

American Scientist

Angus Deaton

You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for any major group in any society are really quite rare. It's an indication that something is very wrong.

British Economist

Tom Tancredo

This epidemic of student demands for 'safe places' to protect against threatening words and ideas would make a great science fiction film, but unbelievably, events seem to be outpacing the political imagination.

American Politician

Subramanian Swamy

Twenty years ago, when I spoke about women getting harassed by politicians, people said I was getting personal. Today, the climate has changed. It has become an epidemic. It's happening in every place.

Indian Politician

Paul Davies

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

British Writer

Joanne Liu

Nations don't have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk.

Canadian Scientist

Anne Applebaum

Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.

American Journalist

Christian de Duve

In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.

Belgian Scientist

Ethel Waters

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

American Musician

Primarily used for health outbreaks, 'epidemic' involves medical terms and context.

Medical Context

'Epidemic' signals widespread illness, but typically confined to a specific area or region.

Scale Limited

An epidemic refers to a disease peak in a short period, not over extended times.

Time Frame

'Epidemic' can describe any widespread issue, not just infectious diseases.

Beyond Diseases

Often used with negative occurrences, 'epidemic' implies a situation needing attention.

Negative Phenomena

In adjective form, 'epidemic' highlights something spreading rapidly among people.

Rapid Spread

Use 'epidemic' to express serious concern over how quickly something is spreading.

Concern Revealed

The adjective form can describe something negatively popular or pervasive in society.

Negative Popularity

'Epidemic' suggests an alarming level of a problem, calling for immediate action.

Connotation of Alarm

 research to discover the genetic consequences of the Black Death has the potential to be hugely beneficial. Today, the threat of an epidemic on the scale of the Black Death has been largely eliminated thanks to antibiotics. But the bubonic plague continues to kill a few thousand people worldwide every year,

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 processed it, and put that plasma back in people to protect them. But that was never tried. So there was a lot that was missing. And these things are really a global failure. The WHO is funded to monitor epidemics, but not to do these things I talked about.

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 government power, and global epidemics. So why bother with all this pessimism? Because at their heart, dystopias are cautionary tales, not about some particular government or technology, but the very idea that humanity can be molded into an ideal shape.

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 and tools the results is an epidemic that isn't getting nearly enough attention now over the next few days we're going to hear about some of humanity's most important and complex issues and whether your issue is climate change world hunger education or

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 or viral host jumps, have the potential to produce deadly epidemics. So how can pathogens from one species infect another, and what makes host jumps so dangerous? Viruses are a type of organic parasite infecting nearly all forms of life.

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 than your body has human cells, many of these bacteria are harmless or even beneficial, helping digestion and immunity. But there are a few bad apples that can cause harmful infections, from minor inconveniences to deadly epidemics.

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 you get very small numbers eventually you'll get inbreeding if a big disease epidemic strikes it can wipe out the population very quickly throughout Africa many chimps have become isolated in national parks now that all these

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 you're at greater risk of being struck by lightning than ever being sent to jail for that crime. And so the epidemic of everyday violence, it just rages on. And it devastates our efforts to try to help billions of people

Gary Haugen: The hidden...

 centers for disease control and Atlanta they release the results of a study which shows that the lifestyle of some male homosexuals has triggered an epidemic of a rare form of cancer in the

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 No matter the cause, obesity is an escalating global epidemic. It substantially raises the probability of diseases, like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, and cancer.