1.   Authorities said the disease has reached an epidemic scale in several other villages and towns.

2.   Experts are predicting breathing disorders on epidemic scale unless engine exhaust and other industrial gasses are urgently controlled.

3.   Experts are predicting breathing disorders on epidemic scale unless petrol motors and other industrial gasses are urgently controlled.

4.   He said Monday it would not make sense to do the same in the United States, where so far the anthrax cases are not on an epidemic scale.

5.   The virus could again have serious implications for the West-European seal population, but officials said it had not yet reached an epidemic scale.