What is required in the immediate is to save the lives of as many people as possible from hunger, thirst and epidemics. |
Pioneer historians were quick to notice that bighorn epidemics regularly followed the arrival of tame woollies. |
Only about 500 Ethiopian wolves remain in the wild, and the species has been ravaged by rabies epidemics at least twice in the recent past. |
So at the moment, touch wood, we have not got reports of epidemics, but it would be foolish for us to assume that we're through the worst. |
While the world has been saved from epidemics of dread diseases, some of today's children are being sacrificed. |
Residents lived on meagre rations and in squalor, suffering epidemics of leprosy and other contagious diseases. |