| cholera epidemic | 5.66 | ...a cholera epidemic. | ||
| flu epidemic | 3.88 | Doctors now fear a flu epidemic. | ||
| crack epidemic | 1.78 | But the crack epidemic waned. | ||
| meningitis epidemic | 1.25 | And tension grew as Stroud suffered a meningitis epidemic. | ||
| disease epidemic | 1.12 | The same kind of growth marks the early stages of disease epidemics. | ||
| plague epidemic | 1.05 | Although anxiety over the plague epidemic appears to be receding, the crisis is not over. | ||
| drug epidemic | 0.99 | Russia is in the throes of a drug epidemic. | ||
| tuberculosis epidemic | 0.99 | A tuberculosis epidemic carried away both his parents and then his grandmother. | ||
| smallpox epidemic | 0.86 | It would be administered to the public in the event of a smallpox epidemic. | ||
| malaria epidemic | 0.79 | The canal project gave rise to a malaria epidemic in the region. | ||
| typhoid epidemic | 0.79 | When the waters receded, a typhoid epidemic broke out. | ||
| obesity epidemic | 0.59 | CDC researchers characterized this as an obesity epidemic. | ||
| polio epidemic | 0.59 | A year later, she helped battle a polio epidemic in New Haven. | ||
| measles epidemic | 0.53 | Half of them, she said, perished in a measles epidemic. | ||
| bacterium epidemic | 0.46 | Narro ruled out a virus or bacteria epidemic, although government investigators said they found some bacteria in the hospital. | ||
| cancer epidemic | 0.46 | The much-publicized cancer epidemic seems to be ebbing. | ||
| cow epidemic | 0.46 | The mad cow epidemic is not an information management issue. | ||
| diphtheria epidemic | 0.46 | Diphtheria epidemics have swept Russia in the past two years. | ||
| asthma epidemic | 0.39 | The real culprits in the asthma epidemic. | ||
| cocaine epidemic | 0.39 | The crack cocaine epidemic has passed, and some of the worst offenders are imprisoned, mellowed or dead. |