"outbreak" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Critics had said the ring approach, while useful in battling natural outbreaks, would do little or nothing against a moderately skilled enemy intent on mayhem.
- Weapons experts said such natural outbreaks were a main way that a terrorist might obtain starter germs, or seed stock.
- In the Soviet Union the outbreak at Stalingrad was described as a natural outbreak.
- In some cases, the microbes that might be used as biological agents have natural outbreaks, giving an opportunity for drugs to be tested.
- But for many other agents natural outbreaks might never occur.
- That approach has worked well in containing natural outbreaks in the past.
- "But every indicator I'm aware of points to a natural outbreak."
- Intelligence agencies believe that Iraq may have collected the smallpox virus from a natural outbreak that struck there in 1971 and 1972.
- But Iraq could have developed its own supply of the virus from a natural outbreak that struck there in 1971 and 1972, infecting at least 800 people.
- In 1970, a rare natural outbreak caused by airborne transmission of smallpox virus occurred when a German electrician returned from Pakistan.
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