sporadic outbreaks
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sporadic
adjective
uk/spəˈræd.ɪk/us/spəˈræd.ɪk/
happening sometimes; not regular ...
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outbreak
noun[C]
uk/ˈaʊt.breɪk/us/ˈaʊt.breɪk/
a time when something suddenly begins, especially a disease or something else dangerous ...
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Investigation of asporadicoutbreakof cyclosporiasis can be a great challenge because of the relatively prolonged incubation period.
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It is believed that cyclones exert an influence in decreasing the number of parasites, thereby producing sporadic outbreaks of borers in some localities.
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Soon after the cyclone, an investigation was undertaken to establish the aetiopathologic agents responsible for the sporadic outbreaks of the diarrhoea in the cyclone-affected areas.
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Thease measures have prevented the spread of the disease, apart from occasional sporadic outbreaks, usually to be traced to infection from the areas mentioned.
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I will come later to the technical importance of the difference between insurrection and sporadic outbreaks of lawlessness.
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If you had not that, you would have sporadic outbreaks, difficult to deal with, and far more interruptive of ordinary industry.
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Since then, sporadic outbreaks of violence have occurred in different parts of the territory, most recently in the northern province.
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Nevertheless, despite that, there are still sporadic outbreaks, as with any other disease which has been removed.
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As to the cause of sporadic outbreaks, more work still needs to be done, but it seems that they are caused by farm-to-farm transmission.
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It is the constant danger of sporadic outbreaks of violence on a global scale.
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There are still sporadic outbreaks of violence in the north of the city too.
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We need to be careful collectively in dealing with predicted sporadic outbreaks.
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The position is this, that, most unfortunately, it is quite impossible to prevent sporadic outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in this or in any other country from uncontrollable causes.
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High attack rates are documented in sporadic outbreaks.
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Therefore, sporadic outbreaks probably occurred in each generation.
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The last recorded deaths from eating honey containing tutin were in the 1890s, although sporadic outbreaks of toxic honey poisoning continue to occur.
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Beginning in 1898 there had been sporadic outbreaks of the plague in the country, and none of the previously developed vaccines were strong or durable enough to handle the disease.
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