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Noun Concept

Categories: Epidemics, Biological hazards, Articles with short description

epidemic Contractible disease epidemic diseases Epidemic illnesses epidemics

A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time WordNet 3.0

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A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time. Wikipedia

Disease that spreads rapidly. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time Wikidata

A sudden increase in the incidence rate of a disease to a value above normal, affecting large numbers of people and spread over a wide area. OmegaWiki

An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period. Wiktionary

IS A

HAS PART

HAS KIND

Dengue fever outbreaks

HAS INSTANCE

Tanganyika laughter epidemic

1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic

1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak

Plague of Athens

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DERIVATION

epidemic

DESCRIBED BY SOURCE

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia

Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language

Otto's encyclopedia

The Nuttall Encyclopædia

DIFFERENT FROM

endemic

HAS LIST

list of epidemics

STUDIED BY

epidemiology

WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

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Wikipedia

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Wikidata

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Wiktionary

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OmegaWiki

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Wikipedia Redirections

Contractible disease, epidemic diseases, Epidemic illnesses, epidemics, epidemy, global epidemics, health disaster, outbreak of infection

Wikidata Alias

epidemics, outbreak