epidemic

1. (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease;
   Attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously (synset 301429248)
   "an epidemic outbreak of influenza"
   referred to in: medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
   similar to:

   • epiphytotic - (of plants) epidemic among plants of a single kind especially over a wide area
   • epizootic - (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region
   • pandemic - epidemic over a wide geographical area
   • pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguey - likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

1. A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease;
   Many people are infected at the same time (synset 107450133)
   is a type of: eruption, irruption, outbreak - a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)
   subtypes: pandemic - an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world

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