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Also known as outbreak, epidemics

thumb|upright=1.5|Example of an epidemic showing the number of new infections over time. An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time. For example, in meningococcal infections, an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered an epidemic.

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An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a population over a short period of time. It matters because understanding when disease spread reaches epidemic levels—defined by specific thresholds like infection rates—helps public health officials recognize and respond to serious health threats.

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Cuban Epidemic Optic Neuropathy (1991-1993) and José Saramago's Novel Blindness (1995).ReviewAmerican journal of ophthalmology · 2018Feibel RM, Arch JDOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2018.06.006
Management of Cardiac Patients in Epidemic Outbreak.ReviewCurrent cardiology reviews · 2022Nola IA, Francula-Zaninovic SDOI: 10.2174/1573403X18666220412140105
Government Legislation in Response to the Opioid Epidemic.ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports · 2019Jones MR, Novitch MB, Sarrafpour S et al.DOI: 10.1007/s11916-019-0781-1
Vaccines for epidemic infections and the role of CEPI.ReviewHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2017Plotkin SADOI: 10.1080/21645515.2017.1306615
Pakistan's growing HIV epidemic.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Samarasekera UDOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02530-2
Finding Hope in Combating the American Opioid Epidemic.Issues in mental health nursing · 2022Thomas SPDOI: 10.1080/01612840.2022.2127573
PrEParing to curb the HIV epidemic in Zambia.The lancet. HIV · 2024The Lancet HivDOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00064-X
Ending the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic: Towards an Evidence-Based Approach.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Fojo AT, Dowdy DWDOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz1018

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handled, mitigated, or managed by: public health surveillance
topic's main category: Category:Epidemics
Commons category: Epidemics
on focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject COVID-19
different from: endemic disease
has list: list of epidemics
studied by: epidemiology
topic has template: Template:Epidemics
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