Every region of the world is affected, although the epidemic is growing most rapidly in Oceania and least rapidly in East Asia. Globally, the type 2 diabetes epidemic has been growing in lockstep with rising obesity levels.

Strengthened partnerships across sectors at the international, national and community levels are necessary to reduce the impact of the epidemic on children.

Flu epidemic.

This is the epidemic in Mozambique. This is an epidemic in northern Tanzania.

The HIV epidemic peaked.

Almost started an epidemic.

Stigmatization is so prevalent it has been referred to as the inevitable third epidemic , occurring after the silent epidemic of HIV infection and the AIDS epidemic.

And we have a terrible chlamydia epidemic terrible chlamydia epidemic which sticks around for many years.

There's an epidemic in the region.

However, it appears to be more difficult to reverse an existing epidemic of HIV among IDUs than preventing an epidemic.

Gregory Petsko on the coming neurological epidemic

Shame is an epidemic in our culture.

First, Africa needs to overcome epidemic diseases.

In addition, because obesity is not a unicentric epidemic, there's not a Patient Zero of the obesity epidemic if we find that guy, there was a spread of obesity out from him it's a multicentric epidemic.

Unstable malaria areas may therefore be prone to epidemic outbreaks, largely as a result of climatic factors, and because low levels of immunity affect people of all ages, with severe health consequences.

The training focused on epidemiological surveillance methods, the case definition of epidemic prone diseases, the management of epidemic prone diseases, and formative supervision.

Removing potential bottlenecks in funding flows and radically improving mechanisms for delivering funds and services at all levels are critical steps to reducing systemic constraints to achieving an expanded response to the AIDS epidemic.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

This is the most devastating epidemic of our time.

The epidemic affected 13 previously polio free African countries.

l UNAIDS 2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic.

24 UNAIDS 2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic.

(i) Treatment of epidemic, endemic, occupational and other diseases

The drug epidemic was spreading over the entire country.

Prevention, control and treatment of epidemic and other diseases

(d) Natural disasters drought and desertification HIV AIDS epidemic.

We had an epidemic of sick wives last night.

Dr. Kauffman calls it an epidemic of mass hysteria.

Does the board of health know about this epidemic?

A real epidemic of suicides hits industrialists and entrepreneurs

(iv) Mitigating the social and economic impact of the epidemic

It had become trendy to speak about the obesity epidemic.

UNAIDS, Aids Epidemic Update (December 2004). http www.unaids.org wad2004 report_pdf.html

Tragedy could strike in the form of a deadly epidemic.

72 of those who suffer from epidemic parotitis were children.

A strange neurosis... evidently contagious an epidemic of mass hysteria.

During the SARS epidemic in Beijing quarantine did seem to help.

The slope of the epidemic curve is approaching now, in November.

And that is reflected in the epidemic that we have today.

There is no such thing as an HIV epidemic in Africa.

It's similar to the pellagra epidemic in Mississippi in the '30s.

The HIV AIDS epidemic alone has killed over 20 million people.

Southern Africa was the epicentre of the global HIV AIDS epidemic.

You better stay outside. We don't want to start an epidemic.

(a) Providing stronger and more visible leadership in response to the epidemic