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Definitions of epidemic in various dictionaries:
noun - a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
adj - (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease
Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time: an epidemic outbreak of influenza.
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| (Hi, I'm Mike Farrell; I play a veterinarian on "Providence") An epizootic is the animal world's equivalent of this type of disease outbreak among humans |
| From the Greek for "among the people", it's an outbreak of one disease over a large area of the world |
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| A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. |
| Of the nature of an epidemic. |
| a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. |
| of the nature of an epidemic. |
| a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease many people are infected at the same time |
| (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously |
| Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time: an epidemic outbreak of influenza. |
| Widely prevalent: epidemic discontent. |
| An outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and widely. |
| A rapid spread, growth, or development: an unemployment epidemic. |
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| An epidemic (from Greek epi "upon or above" and demos "people") is the rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time, usually two weeks or less. For example, in meningococcal infections, an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered an epidemic.Epidemics of infectious disease are generally caused by several factors including a change in the ecology of the host population (e.g. increased stress or increase in the density of a vector species), a genetic change in the pathogen reservoir or the introduction of an emerging pathogen to a host population (by movement of pathogen or host). Generally, an epidemic occurs when host immunity to either an established pathogen or newly emerging novel pathogen is suddenly reduced below that found in the endemic equilibrium and the transmission threshold is exceeded.An epidemic may be restricted to one location; however, if it sprea |