0 the appearance of a particular disease in a large number of people at the same time:
a flu epidemic
1 a particular problem that seriously affects many people at the same time:
a crime/unemployment epidemic
2 happening a lot and affecting many people:
Poverty in this country has reached epidemic proportions .
3 the appearance of a particular disease in a very large number of people during the same period of time:
a flu epidemic
Further work is needed to study the impact of this assumption on the size and the duration of the simulated epidemics.
Although there were intermittent periods when the populations could recover and indeed expand, subsequent new epidemics took a terrible toll.
The resulting typhoid ('enteric fever ' or maagkoors) epidemics claimed victims annually and the tenants' ignorance of basic hygiene perpetuated the cycle.
The lack of sustained growth in expenditure on this service is perhaps unsurprising, given the receding threat of epidemics.
Introductions to naive host populations elsewhere have caused severe epidemics.
In the absence of vaccination, epidemics expand rapidly and can last for several months, usually stopping with the onset of the rains [7].
The age distribution of cases was consistent with that previously observed in meningococcal disease epidemics.
Very few studies have estimated the impact of measles epidemics in a group of vaccine decliners on a surrounding population of vaccine acceptors.
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