What is "epidemics"

Usage examples of "epidemics".

Six epidemics of this complaint had visited Boston in the course of a hundred years.

I must repeat that the most eminent doctors had not one bit better explanation for the causes of epidemics than the ignorant Russian villagers who hitched the town widows to their plows.

Lady Bruce as usual went with him, and they found new epidemics of sleeping sickness flaring up in unwonted places.

You think epidemics, sudden widespread allergic reactions, diseases that wipe out crops or livestock just happen.

The epidemics of small pox, which had at times decimated whole tribes of Indians, were got rid of by the introduction of vaccination.