An epidemic occurs when a disease unexpectedly increases among a large population or region. An example is ebola, which spread rapidly throughout West Africa in 2014–2016.

Most people experience periods of loneliness, isolation or solitude in their lives. But these are different things, and the ...

For example, in the poorest and whitest ZIP code areas in California analyzed by researchers, 44.2 percent of adults – defined as those 15 and older – received at least one opioid prescription ...

It is effectively an epidemic on a global scale. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which ripped across the globe following World War I, is a typical example of a pandemic but there are countless examples ...

For example, in 2017 in Australia, we saw many more seasonal influenza cases than we would usually see at this time of year, and so we recognised we were in the midst of an influenza epidemic.

During the flu epidemic of 1990, for example, the CDC’s threshold was 6.7 percent of total deaths. Today’s threshold figure is likely due in part to the emergence of new, ...

The original “Tipping Point” concentrated on three main concepts that Gladwell argued were essential to understanding social epidemics. It described the Law of the Few, the indispensable role ...

In the heart of America lies a quiet crisis, one that predates the global upheaval brought by Covid-19 yet has found fertile ground in its wake: a profound epidemic of loneliness and isolation.

“The HIV epidemic is not over, not by a long shot. The scare around HIV and death is gone. And that is exactly what we wanted. We didn’t want people to think of HIV and be scared of it.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – April is autism awareness month, but one local advocate for the autism community believes the recent national spotlight on the “autism epidemic” needs to change.