Epidemic

Epidemic
Related Category: Pathology
outbreak of disease that affects a much greater number of people than is usual for the locality or that spreads to regions where it is ordinarily not present.
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Fever, epidemic hemorrhagic: A number of diseases characterized by an abrupt onset of high fever and chills, headache, cold and cough, and pain in the muscles, ...
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Alternate Names
: Epidemic Parotitis
Definition
Mumps is an acute, contagious, viral disease that causes painful enlargement of the salivary or parotid glands.
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Epidemic myalgia, also known as Bornholm disease, is an acute viral infection that runs in epidemics and, among other things, produces marked muscle pain. Hence, the name "epidemic myalgia." ...
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Epidemic parotitis
Causes, incidence, and risk factors:
The mumps are caused by a virus which is spread from person-to-person by respiratory droplets or direct contact with articles that have been contaminated with infected saliva.
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EPIDEMIC: A disease that spreads rapidly through a demographic segment of the population, such as everyone in a given geographic area (eg, a military base) or everyone of a certain age or sex (eg, the children or women of a region).
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Epidemics usually occur in the summer and autumn.
How's it treated?
People of any age can be affected although it often affects people under the age of 30.
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Epidemic Kaposi's sarcoma
In 1981, a fulminant and disseminated form of KS in young homosexual or bisexual men was first reported as part of an epidemic now known as AIDS.[14] The etiology of AIDS is a T-cell lymphotropic retrovirus known as HIV.
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Epidemics, when they occur, usually reach their peak during the warmest months (July and August).
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During an epidemic, most people can be helped by oral rehydration alone, but severely dehydrated people need intravenous fluids, which are more expensive and difficult to administer.
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When the AIDS epidemic struck, it first spread within the homosexual community, whose sexual practices put them at especially high risk. Today, AIDS among heterosexuals is also on the rise, accounting for about a third of all cases.
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The UK Smoking Epidemic - Deaths in 1995. Health Education Authority, 1998
Cigarettes: What the warning label doesn't tell you. American Council on Science and Health, 1996
Royal College of Physicians. Smoking or Health. London, Pitman, 1977.
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EBOLA VIRUS - An epidemic viral illness seen in southern Sudan and Zaire, caused by the Ebola virus.
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Any contagious epidemic disease that is deadly. 2. An infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis that can be spread from animals to humans and is normally spread to humans by fleas (called bubonic plague) or from person to person by respiratory ...
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encephal-; encephalaemia; encephalalgia; encephalatrophic; encephalatrophy; encephalauxe; encephale isole; encephalic; encephalic vesicle; encephalithogenic protein; encephalitic; encephalitis; encephalitis, california; encephalitis, epidemic; ...
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B Strep (November 29) Rubella Vaccination Recommendation Changes for Pregnant Women (November 29) ACOG Issues Document on Cervical Cancer Screening Technologies (November 29) Two New Studies Address Hormone Therapy post-WHI (November 29) Epidemic of ...
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(6) Ishimoto H; Nakamura H; Miyoshi T Epidemic-logical study on relationship between breast cancer mortality and dietary factors. Tokushima I Exp Med (JAPAN) Dec 1994,41(3-4) p103-14 ...
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Influenza types A and B are responsible for epidemics of respiratory illness that occur almost every winter and are often associated with increased rates of hospitalization and death.
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Cases of Legionnaires' disease that occur in conjunction with an outbreak, or epidemic, are more likely to be diagnosed quickly. Early diagnosis aids effective and successful treatment.
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Influenza A is the one usually responsible for the annual epidemics. Most people get multiple flu infections during their lives.
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The largest-ever documented outbreak of human anthrax contracted through spore inhalation occurred in Russia in 1979, when anthrax spores were accidentally released from a military laboratory, causing a regional epidemic that killed 69 of its 77 ...
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Obesity is a growing epidemic in developed countries throughout the world. Obesity causes significant public health problems, including an increase in type 2 diabetes, cardiac disease, and degenerative joint disease.
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Between 1989 and 1991, there was a measles epidemic in the United States among children who did not receive the vaccine or received only one dose of it.
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Hepatitis A often occurs in epidemic settings.
hepatitis B, which has been found in blood, saliva, semen, and vaginal secretions.
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Answer: Legionnaire's disease is a type of pneumonia that can occur in epidemics. The illness received its name from an American Legion convention where a number of participants developed a severe pneumonia from an unknown cause.
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AIDS - acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - was first reported in the United States in 1981 and has since become a major worldwide epidemic. AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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National and world health organizations worry that a mutated bird flu virus could cause a world-wide epidemic (pandemic). Many people have at least some immunity to human viruses, which means their body can more easily fight the virus.
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Depending on its cause, encephalitis can occur as an isolated case, a localized outbreak or an epidemic.
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The most common cause of diarrhea is a mild viral infection that resolves on its own within a few days. This is called viral gastroenteritis or "stomach flu." Viral gastroenteritis often appears in mini-epidemics in schools, neighborhoods, ...
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Immunizations help protect you or your child from disease. They also help reduce the spread of disease to others. Immunizations have greatly reduced the occurrence of epidemics.
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