major epidemic
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandepidemic
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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epidemic
noun
uk/ˌep.ɪˈdem.ɪk/us/ˌep.əˈdem.ɪk/
the appearance of a particular disease in a large number of people at the ...
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(Definition ofmajorandepidemicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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When there is a real threat of amajorepidemic, as with influenza, such work is essential even if it might be open to misuse.
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The same applies to amajorepidemicof a commercially important animal disease such as foot and mouth.
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When can we have a debate to discuss the health, environmental and pollution aspects of what is amajorepidemicamong our children?
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In my city we had the lastmajorepidemicin the country.
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And all this is happening during a winter when there has been nomajorepidemic.
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Eight weeks is not very long after the last known outbreak of amajorepidemic.
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It is very difficult to deal with all those problems in the middle of amajorepidemicwhen time is everything.
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We looked hard at what constitutes good public health measures for children and young people so that we could try to avoid amajorepidemicof obesity in young people.
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The water was badly contaminated and threatened amajorepidemic.
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During the colonial period, there weremajorepidemicoutbreaks which led to the implementation of sanitary and preventive policy.
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Amajorepidemicwas averted due to high rates of vaccination in the surrounding communities.
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Let us suppose, hopefully, that the era of major wars and major epidemics is drawing to an end-erratically and with bad lapses-but in the right direction.
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But at the same time it has become possible to progress from the crude attempts at biological warfare of past centuries 1 to threaten major epidemics.
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We are facing a return to the pre-antibiotic era, with untreatable infections, incurable diseases and major epidemics.
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There had been no major epidemics in the camp, though there had previously been some cases of a mild form of dysentery.
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There have not been any major epidemics during the last year.
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In each of the major epidemics we have had in this century, the disease has been in the country for at least a year.
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Moreover, with the breakdown of sanitation and public health, there is a real prospect of starvation and major epidemics.
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Before the introduction of a vaccine in the 1950s major epidemics of whooping cough were frequent, with the annual notification exceeding 100,000 year.
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Sickness absenteeism went up and down according to major epidemics.
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