Occurring suddenly in numbers clearly in excess of normal expectancy; said especially of infectious diseases but applied also to any disease, injury, or other health-related event occurring in such outbreaks.<\/p>\n
Term used to describe a wide-spread outbreak of an infectious disease. Compare with endemic.<\/p>\n
An unusual number of cases of a disease in a given population.<\/p>\n
Affecting many people in the same geographic area.<\/p>\n
Spreading quickly through a large part of the population.<\/p>\n
Outbreak of infectious disease (e.g., influenza) in which many people in a given geographic area are readily affected with the disorder, affecting a large number of people at the same time.<\/p>\n
Occurrence of a disease in greater-than-expected proportion over a geographic region.<\/p>\n
An infection that attacks a large group of people; it typically starts in one local area and then spreads to larger segments of a population, sometimes to other countries or even worldwide.<\/p>\n
An extensive outbreak of a disease, most commonly a contagious or infectious disease, that usually spreads rapidly within a community or region and affects a large number of people at the same time. Epidemics tend to occur suddenly and involve more cases of disease than could be anticipated. The cause of the rapid spread of a disease may be person-to- person contact (especially when overcrowding occurs) or contamination of the public drinking water or general food source.<\/p>\n
A sudden outbreak of infectious disease that spreads rapidly through the population, affecting a large proportion of people. The commonest epidemics today are of influenza. Compare endemic, pandemic,<\/p>\n
A term applied to a disease which affects a large number of people in a particular locality at one time. An epidemic disease is usually infectious from person to person, but not necessarily so since many persons in a locality may simply be exposed to the same cause at one time; for example, outbreaks of lead-poisoning are epidemic in this sense.<\/p>\n
An outbreak of a disease, i.e., a disease that suddenly affects a large group of persons in a geographic region or defined population group.<\/p>\n
The occurrence of more cases of a disease than expected.<\/p>\n
An unusually high occurrence of a disease in a certain place during a certain period.<\/p>\n
An extensive and temporary escalation in the frequency of a contagious ailment, commonly known as BMS, is the subject of discussion. This term typically describes the rise and fall of disease occurrence within a single season of growth, such as Phytophthora infestans, which is a potato blight, Puccinia striiformis, which is yellow rust of wheat, or Venturia inaequalis, which is apple scab. However, the definition and concept do not preclude a similar pattern occurring over a period of several years or seasons. Moreover, in certain tropical regions, the notion of ‘seasons’ is not readily discernible.<\/p>\n
Impacting a large number of individuals within a community or population and rapidly disseminating.<\/p>\n
The term used for a disease that is typically rare in a community for most of the time but suddenly spreads rapidly to impact a large number of people.<\/p>\n
Outbreaks of novel influenza strains are frequent, happening periodically when the influenza virus mutates into a form to which the population lacks resistance.<\/p>\n
The abrupt and unexpected surge of a disease in a specific region or community.<\/p>\n
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Occurring suddenly in numbers clearly in excess of normal expectancy; said especially of infectious diseases but applied also to any disease, injury, or other health-related event occurring in such outbreaks. Term used to describe a wide-spread outbreak of an infectious disease. Compare with endemic. An unusual number of cases of a disease in a given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e"],"yoast_head":"\n