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These epidemic diseases take more than three million lives every year.
In the times of epidemic sick people were buried alive.
We have epidemic numbers of children with learning, behavioral and respiratory problems.
Even when they are epidemic, we tend to think of these as inherently personal diseases.
Doctors hope the country's medical system can head off the kind of epidemic devastating neighboring countries.
Gradually, the incidence of the once epidemic disease began to drop.
In what has been called "the silent world of doctor and patient," communication problems are epidemic.
Incompetence has, I fear, reached epidemic proportions of late in our local police force.
By the mid-1979 corruption reached epidemic proportions as the economy collapsed.
In 1528 the disease reached epidemic proportions for the fourth time and with great severity.
Cholera remains both epidemic and endemic in many areas of the world.
They were living in a low-lying area and suffered epidemic illness.
I know you're busy and death is epidemic but I'm selfish enough to wish you hadn't.
Drugs are not a major problem, but drinking and gambling are epidemic.
It reached epidemic proportions last week, when five of the six games played were decided by a shootout.
Morning sluggishness is epidemic and caffeine may seem like the only cure.
Of these, only groups A and B are epidemic.
You see, most epidemic diseases are sparked off by a particular combination of historical and environmental circumstances.
"There are sometimes epidemic outbreaks throughout a whole team.
This problem reached epidemic proportions among blacks, where now more than four out of every 10 families are headed by women."
Low pay and high turnover rates are epidemic.
The story with the trees is long and tangled, replicated to an apparently epidemic extent across Britain.
But if there was an epidemic sweeping Britain last week, it was more rhetorical than medical.
The killings resumed in 1982 and in 1984 they reached epidemic proportions.
The price of food rose sharply during epidemic years, then began to fall very rapidly as there were fewer mouths to feed.