- An
epidemic (from Gr**** ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος
demos "people") is the
rapid spread of
disease to a
large number of
hosts in a
given po****tion...
- This is a list of the
largest known epidemics and
pandemics caused by an
infectious disease in humans.
Widespread non-communicable
diseases such as cardiovascular...
- The
crack epidemic was a
surge of
crack cocaine use in
major cities across the
United States throughout the
entirety of the 1980s and the
early 1990s....
- The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also
known as the
Great Influenza epidemic or by the
common misnomer Spanish flu, was an
exceptionally deadly global influenza...
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Epidemic typhus, also
known as louse-borne typhus, is a form of
typhus so
named because the
disease often causes epidemics following wars and
natural disasters...
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referred to as the
Ishii Network. The
Ishii Network was
headquartered at the
Epidemic Prevention Research Laboratory,
established in 1932 at the ****anese Army...
-
ranks as the fifth-deadliest
pandemic or
epidemic in history. In epidemiology, a
pandemic is
defined as "an
epidemic occurring over a very wide area, crossing...
-
Epidemic Sound is a
global royalty-free
soundtrack providing company based in Stockholm, Sweden. The
company was
established in 2009 by Peer Åström, David...
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known as
typhus fever, is a
group of
infectious diseases that
include epidemic typhus,
scrub typhus, and
murine typhus.
Common symptoms include fever...
- The
disease was
therefore more
prevalent among women and children. The
epidemic likely started when a
villager developed sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease...
