Disease had reached pandemic proportions, with 3,000,000 dying of typhus alone in 1920.

It has since more than doubled, and the disease that was once termed a random outbreak has reached pandemic proportions.

AIDS infection started reaching pandemic proportions around 1995.

Overweight and obesity are rising medical problems of pandemic proportions.

The epidemic, no, one had to state its true proportions, pandemic, had marked everyone, including those lucky enough not to have contracted it.

Total volume crime was at almost pandemic proportions by 1993, when Michael Howard took over at the Home Office.

There's a delicate balance between letting this spread just so far and having it reach pandemic proportions.

The effects of the illness described in "Speech Sounds" are said by Butler to have reached pandemic proportions:

Most public health experts believe that this act prevented the disease from reaching pandemic proportions.

A contagion that began as an isolated, early '90s outbreak now threatens pandemic proportions.