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Home Dictionary Name: epidemicEpidemic
Common to or affecting at the same time a large number in a community applied to a disease which spreading widely attacks many persons at the same time as an epidemic disease an epidemic catarrh fever etc See Endemic...
Epidemically
In an epidemic manner...
Epidemic disease
Epidemic disease. A disease prevalent among a people or a community at a special time, and produced by some special causes not generally present in the affected locality, Oxf. Dict. See INFECTIOUS DISEASE....
Dengue
A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever cutaneous eruption and severe pains in the head and limbs resembling those of rheumatism called also breakbone fever It occurs in India Egypt the West Indies etc is of short duration and rarely fatal...
Epidemiography
A treatise upon or history of epidemic diseases...
Epidemy
An epidemic disease...
erysipelas
St Anthonys fire a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused red edematous inflammation of the skin which starting usually from a single point spreads gradually over its surface It is often accompanied by severe constitutional symptoms It is caused by a group A hemolytic streptococcus Streptococcus pyogenes is contagious and formerly often occured epidemically...
Grippe
The influenza or epidemic catarrh...
Influenza
An epidemic viral infectious disease characterized by acute nasal catarrh or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi and usually accompanied by fever and general weakness also called grippe It is caused by several forms of RNA virus which mutate readily and thereby render vaccines prepared against older forms ineffective often requiring a new form of vaccine for each new outbreak...
Pandemic
Affecting a whole people or a number of countries everywhere epidemic...
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