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Difference between outbreak, endemic, epidemic and pandemic
In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurrences of a disease when cases are in excess of normal expectancy for the location or season. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire continent. The number of cases varies according to the disease-causing agent, and the size and type of previous and existing exposure to the agent. Outbreaks include many epidemics, which term is normally only for infectious diseases, as well as diseases with an environmental origin, such as a water or foodborne disease. They may affect a region in a country or a group of countries. Pandemics are near-global disease outbreaks when multiple and various countries around the Earth are soon infected.
In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurrences of a disease when cases are in excess of normal expectancy for the location or season...
shown by individual outbreaks, such as the Plague of Justinian (first pandemic) and the Black Death (second pandemic). Infectious diseases with high prevalence...
signs and symptoms was performed during the 1998–2000 mixed MARV/RAVV diseaseoutbreak. A skin rash, red or purple spots (e.g. petechiae or purpura), bruises...
that area." The term "outbreak" can also apply, but is usually restricted to smaller events.: §1:72 Any sudden increase in disease prevalence may generally...
pathogens and diseaseoutbreaks which may have pandemic potential. Routine vaccination programs are a type of prevention strategy, holding back diseases such as...
United States to treat the disease caused by Zaire ebolavirus. Ebola was first identified in 1976, in two simultaneous outbreaks, one in Nzara (a town in...
an outbreak of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, also known as "mad cow disease"), and its human equivalent variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD)...
2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in Western Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history. It caused major loss...
at risk for potential outbreaks of waterborne diseases but more developed regions also are at risk to waterborne diseaseoutbreaks. Global climate change...
co-discoverer. In a 2016 Journal of Infectious Disease article, co-signed by most of the actors from that first outbreak, including Peter Piot and Jean-Jacques...
a community outbreak of meningococcal disease in Florida was done by the CDC. As of June 2022, there is an ongoing outbreak of the disease in Florida....
This list of Ebola outbreaks records the known occurrences of Ebola virus disease, a highly infectious and acutely lethal viral disease that has afflicted...
A second outbreak of Minamata disease occurred in Niigata Prefecture in 1965. The original Minamata disease and Niigata Minamata disease are considered...
who argued that these issues were harming the fight to contain the diseaseoutbreak, the subtypes of monkeypox virus were renamed clade I and clade II...
control is limited to phytosanitary measures. During the 1950s, an outbreak of Panama disease almost wiped out commercial Gros Michel banana production. The...
The 1967 Marburg virus diseaseoutbreak was the first recorded outbreak of Marburg virus disease. It started in early August 1967 when 30 people became...
A Marburg virus diseaseoutbreak in Tanzania was first reported on 21 March 2023 by the Ministry of Health of Tanzania. This is the first time that Tanzania...
described in 1967. It was discovered that year during a set of outbreaks of Marburg virus disease in the German cities of Marburg and Frankfurt and the Yugoslav...
Bornholm in the Baltic Sea where an outbreak was one of the first to be described. The expected symptoms of Bornholm disease include fever, pleuritic chest...
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