national epidemic

Frequency: 6.59.2 per million words

An epidemic contained within a specific country.

epidemicADJECTIVE + epidemic

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national

Examples (10)

  • The government declared the recent outbreak a national epidemic.
  • Obesity has become a national epidemic in many developed countries.
  • Health officials are struggling to control the national epidemic of influenza.
  • The country was still recovering from the devastating effects of the 1918 national epidemic.
  • What measures are being taken to prevent this from becoming a national epidemic?
  • A coordinated response is needed to halt the spread of this national epidemic.
  • Mental health issues among teenagers have reached the scale of a national epidemic.
  • If not contained, this local outbreak could soon become a national epidemic.
  • The latest statistics confirm we are facing a national epidemic of opioid addiction.
  • What started as a regional problem has now escalated into a national epidemic.