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The outbreak of COVID-19 has created an unprecedented situation around the world.
Ram Nath Kovind /
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Unprecedented
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Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.
Hendrik Poinar / University Professor
Medieval
Plague
Descendant
Globe
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Stems
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The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
Fritz Kreisler / Violinist
War
Switzerland
Wife
Cure
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Taking
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Partnering up with the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour marks a milestone moment in my career.
A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie /
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The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.
William Lyon Mackenzie King / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Canada
Consumption
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The United States is deeply concerned about the vulnerability of the North Korean people to a coronavirus outbreak.
Morgan Ortagus /
North Korean
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
Buffalo Bill / Hunter
Government
Broken
Broken Heart
Broken Promises
Indian
Treaties
Ever
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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides / Historian
Anger
War
Causes
Insignificant
Spring
Unseen
Wars
Explosion
Generally
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When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Relief
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Ultimately with our band, it's word of mouth. It seems to be the largest cause of The Hip outbreak - if we can align ourselves with a virus.
Gord Downie /
Band
Seems
Align
Cause
Hip
Largest
Mouth
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A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
Karl Abraham / Psychoanalyst
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Able
Intense
Neurotic
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Persons
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Considerable
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In 'Pox: An American History,' Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a major outbreak.
Scott Gottlieb /
American History
Smallpox
Michael
Major
Outbreak
Pressed
Service
Traces
Vaccine
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The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.
Pardis Sabeti /
Frightening
Lifetime
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React
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The British deployed the men of their Indian army on the European battlefield from October 1914; the decision being made within days of the outbreak of hostilities.
David Olusoga /
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British
Decision
Indian
October
Within
Battlefield
Days
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The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
Lytton Strachey / Writer
Peace
War
Brilliant
Monarchy
Stability
Established
Wars
Firmly
Francis
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Seemed
Vanished
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From West Nile to swine flu to Ebola to the global outbreak of dengue fever, the capacity to deal with threats like Zika must be designed into our preparedness posture.
Scott Gottlieb /
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Flu
Nile
Posture
Preparedness
Swine
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We imagine 'the end' as a world-devastating event, but every time there's a terrible earthquake, a tsunami, an outbreak of disease - that's apocalyptic, on a micro-scale.
Marjorie Liu /
Tsunami
Earthquake
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The global economy is facing unprecedented challenges with the outbreak of Covid-19. Businesses large and small across our country are also responding to these challenges.
Alok Sharma /
Challenges
Country
Economy
Global Economy
Responding
Unprecedented
Across
Also
Businesses
Facing
Global
Small
Large
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The United States is stepping up to lead the international response to the Ebola outbreak, and Congress will ensure that the president's request is fully and quickly funded.
Rodney Frelinghuysen /
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When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money spent on sanitation in the previous decade.
Rose George / Journalist
Cholera
Greater
Peru
Revenue
Sanitation
Tourism
Agricultural
Decade
Losses
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Previous
Spent
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China's relationship with the world has changed dramatically since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan resulting in human lives and global economies being ravaged.
Vivek Agnihotri /
Dramatically
Economies
Outbreak
Pandemic
Resulting
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The way that Soviet intelligence tried to reshape the balance of power in the Middle East is essential to understand the developments that led to the outbreak of the Six-Day War.
Ronen Bergman /
Balance Of Power
Middle East
Soviet
Developments
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Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
Alan Huffman /
Chaos
Plague
Event
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From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Tim O'brien / Novelist
Birth
Brooklyn
Catholic
Neighborhood
Working Class
Irish Catholic
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There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Congress
Frenzy
Influence
Lasts
Real
Rebellion
Session
Speech
Authors
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When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.
Eli Roth / Film Director
Bleeding
Body
Cracked
Horrible
Legs
Weird Things
Your Body
Walk Your Body
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We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
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Numbers
People
Saws
Significant
Beginnings
Nowhere
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Ended
Near
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Significant Number
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I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.
Junot Diaz / Writer
Fascinated
Narrative
Stories
World
Immigrant
Narratives
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Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.
Aaron Klein / Author
Attacking
Ebola
Funding
Long
Massive
Republican
Schemes
Skepticism
Utilizing
Democrats
Expressing
Federal
Republicans
Long History
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In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.
William Lyon Mackenzie King / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Canada
Months
Proof
Quantity
Twelve
Domestic
Immediately
Imported
Million
Outbreak
Released
Spirits
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After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.
James Meade / Economist
April
Army
Crowds
Fleeing
France
Geneva
Refugee
Aged
German
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The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983.
Michael Greger / Physician
American History
Bird
Flu
Pennsylvania
History More American
Deaths
Domestic
Largest
Led
Outbreak
Virus
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It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood.
Alice Oswald / Poet
Billions
Committed
Democracy
Equal
Flood
Rain
Relief
Sound
Water
Like
Becomes
Drops
Falling
Ground
Hear
Hits
Instantly
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Sudden
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Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war.
William Lyon Mackenzie King / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Beer
Consumption
Increase
Steady
Volume
Wine
Annual
Dollar
Double
Estimated
Practically
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I think the world should unite and focus on strong health systems to prepare the whole world to prevent epidemics - or if there is an outbreak, to manage it quickly - because viruses don't respect borders, and they don't need visas.
Tedros Adhanom /
Respect
Health
Borders
Focus
Manage
Strong
Viruses
Whole
Epidemic
Outbreak
Prepare
Prevent
Quickly
Systems
Unite
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The history of the outbreak of war 100 years ago and of the collapse of the fragile balance of power in Europe in the summer of 1914 is a disturbing tale of the failure of the governing elites and the military, but also of diplomacy.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier / Former Vice-Chancellor Of Germany
Balance Of Power
Collapse
Diplomacy
Disturbing
Elites
Governing
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Tale
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Since the first large Zika outbreak ever recognized, in 2007, the CDC has had boots on the ground responding. Our laboratories have developed a test that can confirm Zika in the first week of illness or in a sample from an affected child.
Tom Frieden /
Boots
Illness
Responding
Sample
Confirm
Developed
Large
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Recognized
Test
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To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere.
Michael C. Burgess / United States Representative
Country
Flu
Important
Partnership
World
Everywhere
Anywhere
Detect
Outbreak
Require
Samples
Several
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The nature of food processing had changed substantially in America. Much of it owed to corresponding changes in food packaging and the logistics for faster shipping. The scope of outbreak from foodborne illness no longer has a clear geographic boundary.
Scott Gottlieb /
Corresponding
Faster
Illness
Logistics
Packaging
Processing
Scope
Shipping
Boundary
Geographic
Outbreak
Owed
Substantially
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Aeroplanes interested me, and at the outbreak of the Second World War, I joined the RAF as a volunteer reservist. I took the opportunity of studying the books which the RAF made available for radio mechanics and looked forward to an interesting course in radio.
Godfrey Hounsfield /
Aeroplanes
Available
Radio
Second World War
Volunteer
World War I
Interested
Forward
Joined
Looked
Mechanics
Outbreak
Second
Studying
World War
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I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France.
Edward Grey /
Contingency
Critical
Doubtful
France
Parliament
Cabinet
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I think I first encountered Ebola from the movie 'Outbreak.' Then there was the book 'The Hot Zone.' It's the type of thing you either read and say, 'Oh wow, that's terrifying,' or you read it and say, 'Oh wow, I want to do that.' I read it and said, 'Oh wow, I want do that.'
Pardis Sabeti /
Wow
Zone
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It's understandable that when something new comes out that's unfamiliar, scary, and has severe outcomes, it gets a lot of media attention. In fact, the Zika outbreak is unprecedented. We've never before identified a mosquito-borne infection that can cause fetal malformations.
Tom Frieden /
Attention
Infection
Media
Scary
Severe
Something New
Unprecedented
Cause
Gets
Identified
In Fact
Outbreak
Understandable
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Pharmaceuticals are regulated. Pesticides are, as well as food, save the occasional salmonella outbreak. But chemicals and their witch's brew of ingredients continue to augment American industry without anyone quite knowing their makeup and possible toxicity. And that needs to change.
Suzy Shuster /
Chemicals
Ingredients
Makeup
Occasional
Pesticides
Witch
Brew
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There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.
Armie Hammer / Actor
Imagination
Armageddon
Impact
Snow
Snow White
Strain
Studios
Decisions
Basically
Deep
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Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria outbreak. My team was dispatched to a village in southwestern Ethiopia, where I not only observed the malaria epidemic's shocking effects on adults and children but also experienced it first-hand.
Tedros Adhanom /
Effects
Ethiopia
Joining
Malaria
Ministry
Shocking
Village
Respond
Observed
Epidemic
Experienced
First-Hand
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We domesticated pigs to turn food waste back into food. And yet, in Europe, that practice has become illegal since 2001 as a result of the foot-and-mouth outbreak. It's unscientific. It's unnecessary. If you cook food for pigs, just as if you cook food for humans, it is rendered safe. It's also a massive saving of resources.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Humans
Illegal
Massive
Pigs
Practice
Resources
Safe
Unnecessary
Waste
Cook
Domesticated
Outbreak
Rendered
Result
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The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
Brendan I. Koerner /
Crisis
Escalating
Federal Government
Incidents
Involving
Pay Attention
Planes
Summer
Epidemic
Federal
Finally
Forced
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