A deep financial crisis is spreading like a virus through the nation's teaching hospitals.

That underscores just how far the crisis has spread, because those nations were considered the safest.

And some worry that a financial crisis could spread to the commercial banks.

The Asian financial crisis had spread and was now threatening to destabilize the entire global economy.

The book looks at the causes of the obesity epidemic in America and why the crisis is spreading overseas.

"We didn't believe that the emerging-markets crisis would spread to the larger Western economies."

Many column inches have been devoted to discussing whether this summer's financial crisis would spread to the real economy.

We are concerned, too, that the crisis will spread to the other countries in the region.

The current market development trend means that a crisis, even if initially originating in one country, can quickly spread to other countries.

The financial crisis has spread rapidly to the real economy, leading to a sharp downturn and unemployment.