1.   The canal project gave rise to a malaria epidemic in the region.

2.   Alvarez says curbing the malaria epidemic will hinge on controlling the mosquitoes that carry the diseases.

3.   A malaria epidemic would have begun slowly and caused multiple deaths over a period of weeks or a month.

4.   Each year, there are thousands of measles cases and last year there was a malaria epidemic.

5.   In Venezuela and other South American countries, medical experts fear malaria epidemics similar to or worse than those that followed previous, and smaller, El Nino episodes.

6.   Other research by Dr. Bouma has found that malaria epidemics follow El Nino in South Asia.

7.   Similarly, a country where AIDS is chronic and such preventable disease as malaria remains epidemic is in dire need of urgent international health care assistance.

8.   A malaria epidemic in Azerbaijan is in danger of spreading into neighboring countries, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

9.   Farmer Naseeruddin Ahmed lost two brothers in a malaria epidemic, along with his faith in modern medicine.

10.   The World Health Organization has issued warnings about possible malaria epidemics this year in the northern states of Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.