What is "epidemic disease"

Usage examples of "epidemic disease".

A stunning decline in life expectancy, increasing infant mortality, rampant epidemic disease, subminimal medical standards and ignorance of preventive medicine all work to raise the threshold at which scepticism is triggered in an increasingly desperate population.

We have a serious epidemic disease on our hands right here in Miami, and it's up to us to do something about it.

Injected intravenously, the blood serum gives protection for at least fourteen days, which is ordinarily sufficient time for an epidemic disease to run its course.

That nasty epidemic disease affects cattle and many wild cud-chewing mammals, but not humans.

In other times of separation, times of horrible duress with war at her doorstep and epidemic disease raging, she had somehow borne up, with so much to contend with, so little time to dwell on her own loneliness.

We do not ordinarily think, for example, of an epidemic disease changing its character as the epidemic spreads.

Before the Event this had been a continent without much in the way of epidemic disease.

No aggression by any other nation was involved and it was even argued that the slugs-if they existed-were technically an epidemic disease rather than a potential source of war and therefore of no interest to the Security Council.

Roger Stone promptly caught the epidemic disease and had to be nursed through it - and thereby extended the quarantine time It gave the twins that much more time in which to exercise their talent for trouble.