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Synonyms for epidemic

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Synonyms for epidemic

a sudden increase in something, as the occurrence of a disease

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Antonyms for epidemic

a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease

(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease

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Borreliosis or Lyme's disease was first described after the occurrence of an arthritis epidemy in Lyme, Connecticut in 1976 (1) In 1982, a Spirochete was proposed as the etiology (2), subsequently confirmed on (3).
Preminary report of tomato spotted wilt virus and its epidemy on tobacco in the canakkale Region of Turkey.
Although the sedentary lifestyle had supplanted physical labor and regular physical activity, some researchers suggest that, in recent decades, changes in diet habits had a dramatic effect on this increasing and alarming worldwide epidemy. In the USA, the intake of chips/crackers/popcorn/pretzels roughly tripled from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s (Sturm, 2005).