Epidemic

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-009918",
  "term": "Epidemic",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Widespread outbreak of a disease, or a large number of cases of a disease in a single community or relatively small area. Disease may spread from person to person, and/or by the exposure of many persons to a single source, such as a water supply.\n\n2. Widespread outbreak of a disease.\n\n3. The occurrence of more cases of disease than expected in a given area or among a specific group of people over a particular period of time.\n\n4. The occurrence of more cases of disease, injury, or other health condition than expected in a given area or among a specific group of persons during a particular period. Usually, the cases are presumed to have a common cause or to be related to one another in some way\n\n5. 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. [CancerWeb 2005]\n\n6. The occurrence of more cases of disease than expected in a given area or among a specific group of people over a particular period of time. [CDC 2005]\n\n7. Widespread outbreak of a disease, or a large number of cases of a disease in a single community or relatively small area. Disease may spread from person to person, and/or by the exposure of many persons to a single source, such as a water supply. [CRCWQT 2002]\n\n8. The occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy; the word also is used to describe outbreaks of disease in animals or plants. [Stedman 2005]",
  "subject": "Health and safety",
  "references": [
    "Drinking Water Technical & Legal Terms",
    "I-BEAM Glossary of Terms",
    "CDC 2005",
    "CDC Glossary of Epidemiology Terms",
    "Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/epidemic/"
}