There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.
Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.
China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States.
We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from the south.
The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.
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.
Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIVAIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.
You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold, and we call that an epidemic threshold.
It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic.
Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.
It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.
Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.