What is "outbreaks"

Usage examples of "outbreaks".

These in turn were producing outbreaks of disease, particularly diarrheal diseases and acute respiratory infections.

Centers for Disease Control, based in Atlanta, was the institution of last resort in cases of outbreaks of infectious disease.

Half the hospitals in Europe have suffered major outbreaks of multiple-resistant pathogens during the last eighteen months.

In the Provinces of Tarlac and Bataan the agrarian situation was fully as bad--and in that of Bulacan conditions were so much worse that, making all allowances for the docility of the people, outbreaks seemed inevitable.

And, as if to support the prophets of woe, hardly had the work begun when the Islands were attacked by one of the worst outbreaks of cholera of modern times.

And American forces crushed these outbreaks bloodily--perhaps also from lack of understanding of the mind and background of the opponent--from lack of power of direct speech or intelligent interpretation, either way.

And, by every sign, it was here the set intent to goad disarmed Islam into scattered outbreaks and revolts--that, here a family, there a clan, by easy stages, the guns of the Constabulary might shoot them down.

Further, the social question--at least so far as it had to do with outbreaks of youth and enthusiasm--was too familiar to him to have any general significance whatever.

The authorities are in doubt whether the occurrence has any relation with recent similar outbreaks in the eastern counties.

King brought new urban outbreaks all over the country, in which thirty-nine people were killed, thirty-five of them black.