1.   By contrast, when Maryland suffered its outbreak in August in the Chesapeake, an area under intense scrutiny by environmentalists, reaction was swift.

2.   Over the past four months, the city has suffered an outbreak of gruesome violence, most of it linked to a battle for control over the drug trade.

3.   But the former Soviet republic has continued to suffer outbreaks of violence.

4.   Ireland and France have also suffered outbreaks.

5.   Kinshasa has suffered several outbreaks of rioting in the past few years, including one in which the French ambassador died.

6.   Recently Spain has suffered periodic outbreaks of the highly contagious - and usually fatal - swine fever, which only affects pigs.

7.   Sakai is the latest of several areas to suffer outbreaks of food poisoning.

8.   South Korea has suffered an outbreak of cholera and said it believes people caught it by eating infected seafood that came downriver from the North.

9.   This former Soviet republic has suffered outbreaks of cholera, diphtheria and other water-borne diseases in recent years.