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• n  a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
  the outbreak of hostilities

• A second outbreak of foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease emerged in Britain on Monday night, thwarting early hopes that the highly contagious animal disease could be contained.
• The virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been confirmed as the source of a bird flu outbreak on an English farm.
• But it's unclear if those measures will be enough to stem the outbreak in outlying provinces, where the health-care system has been eroded by years of inadequate government funding .

• eruption
• irruption

News & Articles

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• CDC: 87 Now Sickened in Hepatitis A Outbreak Tied to Frozen Berry Mix
  Title: CDC: 87 Now Sickened in Hepatitis A Outbreak Tied to Frozen Berry Mix Category: Health News Created: 6/11/2013 12:35:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 6/12/2013 12:00:00 AM
  June 13, 2013 - MedicineNet.com
• Hepatitis A outbreak linked to frozen berries sickens 87
  WASHINGTON – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says an outbreak of hepatitis A linked to a frozen berry mix sold at Costco has grown to 87 people with illnesses in eight states.
  June 12, 2013 - Fox News
• Meteorologists forecasting storm outbreak, with eye toward 2012 derecho
  Forecasters are watching an expected outbreak of severe weather from Illinois to Maryland that some are likening to last June's derecho; one meteorologist predicted it would be a "multi billion dollar storm" causing massive power outages.        
  June 12, 2013 - Baltimore Sun

Quotes

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• Ban Ki-moon in Boston Globe (registration)
  In New York, Ban warned of an "outbreak of infectious diseases that could dwarf today's crisis."
• Barack Obama in New York Times
  The potential for a significant outbreak in the fall is looming,President Obama said by telephone link from Italy to the White House's H1N1 Influenza Preparedness Summit, held at the National Institutes of Health.
• Zhou Xiaochuan in Wall Street Journal
  The outbreak of the crisis and its spillover to the entire world reflected the inherent vulnerabilities and systemic risks in the existing international monetary system,Mr. Zhou said.