| rdfs:comment | - other uses Image:Wiktionary-logo-en.svg Look up epidemic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In epidemiology, an epidemic (from Greek epi- upon + demos people) is a classification of a disease that appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is "expected," based on recent experience (the number of new cases in the population during a specified period of time is called the "incidence rate"). (An epizootic is the same thing but for an animal population.) The disease may or may not be contagious.
- Epidemic was the second expansion set to the .hack//ENEMY card game. Two starter decks were released for this series, modeled after Mia and Elk.
- In the field of medicine, an epidemic refers to an infectious disease, usually caused by a microbe. Somewhere around 1976, it was predicted by the Government Medical Research Laboratories that a worldwide epidemic was coming the following winter, and they had began working on an experiment to develop a vaccine for it.
- Full: Spread all negative conditions and their remaining durations from target foe to all foes adjacent to your target. Concise: Conditions on target foe transfer to adjacent foes. __TOC__
- All over Loudwater, orcs are exploding! The cause is a disease that is spreading quickly through the city's populace. There isn't enough clerical magic to go around and an epidemic will soon strike if a cure is not found quickly.
- An epidemic describes the rapid spread of a virulent contagious disease throughout a population. It should not be used interchangeably with the term pandemic, which is the outbreak of any disease within a population for any reason, including contagion. For example, an epidemic of influenza is a fairly common occurrence. However, the incidence of diabetes mellitus keeps growing, it cannot be described as an epidemic because it is not passed from person to person. The study of the pattern of epidemics is one of the most important parts of epidemiology, although epidemiology studies the spread of any sort of disease, often to determine if the disease is contagious or whether it is more likely to occur in certain environments.
- Preparing for the Great Rainbow Sky Festival, Slam arrives at Emily's house and convince Emily to make a love potion so Fling can love her again but Emily denied it as she is trying to research along with Pab what the festival. Slam taunts and jokely her and Pab about being some miis who are so expert at computers they refuse to help others, She decided to relax here until the rainbow shiners come, shocked Emily, She ask Slam if she can watch the rainbow shiners with her and Pab and she accepted. To Be Continued in the next episode........
- Graybreeze sighed and grabbed half of a rabbit sitting on the fresh-kill pile. There wasn't much, but Aquastar was getting weaker each day, and needed as much food as she could get. She dragged the scrawny amount of food to her sister's den and shoved her way inside, grunting as bracken clawed her pelt. "Aquastar," She called softly, dropping the prey. "I brought you some rabbit." Her sister didn't stir from her nest. Graybreeze crept forward; most days her sister didn't wake, refused to eat because she thought she was taking too much prey. She was very depressed nowadays.
- She usually had a perfect complexion. Usually. She was breaking out. Badly. Her face was covered in pimples. They looked a little off, but they were still there. She tried to hide them. Tried to make them go away. But no matter how much she tried, no matter how many washes and creams, no matter how much makeup, they wouldn't go away. She was suddenly the laughing stock at school. She couldn't go anywhere without being stared at. Her best friends wouldn't be seen with her. So she did the one thing she told herself she never would. She popped them. One of the victims had been her baby sister.
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| abstract | - An epidemic describes the rapid spread of a virulent contagious disease throughout a population. It should not be used interchangeably with the term pandemic, which is the outbreak of any disease within a population for any reason, including contagion. For example, an epidemic of influenza is a fairly common occurrence. However, the incidence of diabetes mellitus keeps growing, it cannot be described as an epidemic because it is not passed from person to person. The study of the pattern of epidemics is one of the most important parts of epidemiology, although epidemiology studies the spread of any sort of disease, often to determine if the disease is contagious or whether it is more likely to occur in certain environments. Epidemics usually strike a population that has no natural immunity to a disease, and are the most common with influenza, where the strains change so fast that entire populations are likely not to be immune to the disease. They are often characterized by very few cases growing to a large number of cases in a very short time, only to have the number of ill people collapse either as patients recover or die. Small epidemics are still common, and one of the main purposes of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta is to deal with outbreaks of contagious diseases to prevent their further spread. Many diseases, such as smallpox, were largely eradicated using such methods. Diseases that are not terribly contagious rarely cause epidemics unless they are very slow to act. For example, it could be argued that the epidemic of AIDS was the result of its slow action despite the difficulty in transmitting the disease. However, the spread of AIDS is not typical of many epidemics as it only struck those who engaged in high risk behaviors for the disease. Influenza is still the disease most likely to cause an epidemic. The last great worldwide epidemic was one of influenza in 1918-1919 that killed over 20,000,000 people - more people than had been killed in World War I. Epidemics were far more common in the past. Plague is estimated to have killed about half the population of Europe in the Middle Ages. Smallpox is estimated to have killed up to 95% percent of native Americans from the 15th to 19th centuries. Small populations are often very susceptible to epidemics, because it is less likely that members of a small population will be exposed to the disease on a regular basis. Instead, everyone is exposed all at once. For example, the Faroe Islands, a small island of about 70,000 people of Danish descent in the North Sea, either has no cases of measles or just about everyone with measles as a population this small will not support measles for long - the disease needs about 500,000 people in order to be constantly present in the population. In Maternity, House deals with a small epidemic where many of the newborns in the maternity ward are suffering from a mysterious illness. In Kids, Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital deals with an outbreak of meningitis at a swimming pool.
- other uses Image:Wiktionary-logo-en.svg Look up epidemic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In epidemiology, an epidemic (from Greek epi- upon + demos people) is a classification of a disease that appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is "expected," based on recent experience (the number of new cases in the population during a specified period of time is called the "incidence rate"). (An epizootic is the same thing but for an animal population.) The disease may or may not be contagious.
- Epidemic was the second expansion set to the .hack//ENEMY card game. Two starter decks were released for this series, modeled after Mia and Elk.
- In the field of medicine, an epidemic refers to an infectious disease, usually caused by a microbe. Somewhere around 1976, it was predicted by the Government Medical Research Laboratories that a worldwide epidemic was coming the following winter, and they had began working on an experiment to develop a vaccine for it.
- Full: Spread all negative conditions and their remaining durations from target foe to all foes adjacent to your target. Concise: Conditions on target foe transfer to adjacent foes. __TOC__
- Graybreeze sighed and grabbed half of a rabbit sitting on the fresh-kill pile. There wasn't much, but Aquastar was getting weaker each day, and needed as much food as she could get. She dragged the scrawny amount of food to her sister's den and shoved her way inside, grunting as bracken clawed her pelt. "Aquastar," She called softly, dropping the prey. "I brought you some rabbit." Her sister didn't stir from her nest. Graybreeze crept forward; most days her sister didn't wake, refused to eat because she thought she was taking too much prey. She was very depressed nowadays. Graybreeze poked her sister gently with one paw. Her brow furrowed in confusion, and she put her muzzle close to Aquastar's. After a moment, she jerked away with a gasp. She raced out into the clearing, abandoning the prey. "Aquastar is dead!" Graybreeze declared in a screech as she finally caught the Clan's attention. The clearing was silent with grief. A black and white tom - Aquastar's mate, Blackriver - nodded somberly and disappeared in his den. The Clan broke apart, a single tabby kit wailing pitifully as a white queen ushered her away. Oh, Lilypaw, Graybreeze thought, looking to the den where her sisters' body lay. When will you come back with that cure?
- She usually had a perfect complexion. Usually. She was breaking out. Badly. Her face was covered in pimples. They looked a little off, but they were still there. She tried to hide them. Tried to make them go away. But no matter how much she tried, no matter how many washes and creams, no matter how much makeup, they wouldn't go away. She was suddenly the laughing stock at school. She couldn't go anywhere without being stared at. Her best friends wouldn't be seen with her. So she did the one thing she told herself she never would. She popped them. The cases started a few days later. All across her city, everyone started getting sick. Everyone had thought it was gone. But now it was back. Most people, teenagers and children especially, weren't vaccinated against it. The city was put under quarantine. The people who didn't get sick were removed from their homes, unsure if they would see their loved ones again. Lucky children who somehow hadn't gotten it were vaccinated and went with their parents, if their parents were old enough to not have gotten it. By the time all this was done, deaths were in the hundreds. There ended up being over 20,000 deaths. The people who did live were scarred horribly, or blind, or worse. Most of the cases were children. The cases were eventually traced back to her. It wasn't her fault, there was no way she could have guessed what she had. It had been gone. No one was sure how she had contracted it in the first place. No one had any logical guesses. The most accepted answer was that she had gotten something from a cow and it mutated to a stronger, but familiar, strain. She had survived. She got off easy, her scarring wasn't so bad. It looked like she wasn't going to have any nasty side effects. She was lucky. She asked to be placed under observation because of her mental health. She was under agonizing guilt. All those people dead or scarred or in pain. Because of her. One of the victims had been her baby sister. She was never as happy as she was beforehand, but life still went on. Most of her friends were OK. Her parents were happy that at least one of their children was OK, and were never angry with her because of what had happened. She grew up. She went to college. She had decided to study disease. She wanted to know what to do if something happened again. They talked about that disease in class, and she had to leave that day. Life went on. She got married. She had children. But she had become paranoid. She made sure her children got every vaccination allowable. She shared her story with people. She became a source of inspiration. Everyone shared condolences for her losses. She became sick one day. But she was old, had lived her life. She knew she had to die at some point. But there was still something she had to do. She returned to her hometown. The population had taken a major toll after the disease ravaged through. It was now a small town, home to a brave few. She went to her old house. One of her old friends lived there. She told him what the doctors had said and asked to come in. He let her. She looked around. The style was basically the same. But she knew it was all new furniture. It had to be, the old stuff was contagious, had been destroyed. She went upstairs, and to the place that had served as her room. There was a large mirror, like she had when she lived there. She looked into it. She saw her scars and started thinking. She used to have a perfect complexion. She started laughing. Odd what could happen because of a few pimples.
- All over Loudwater, orcs are exploding! The cause is a disease that is spreading quickly through the city's populace. There isn't enough clerical magic to go around and an epidemic will soon strike if a cure is not found quickly.
- Preparing for the Great Rainbow Sky Festival, Slam arrives at Emily's house and convince Emily to make a love potion so Fling can love her again but Emily denied it as she is trying to research along with Pab what the festival. Slam taunts and jokely her and Pab about being some miis who are so expert at computers they refuse to help others, She decided to relax here until the rainbow shiners come, shocked Emily, She ask Slam if she can watch the rainbow shiners with her and Pab and she accepted. At the Wuhu Town, Fling was jumping up and down due to fact that Lady Rose what about to annouced the party planner after got let down by Bunty, Punt and Rott previous years, Draffsack state that he should be the party planner but Fling reply that it will so boring if Draffsack becomes the party planner. Lady Rose comes outside decided who will be the party planner dispite of getting annoyed by Fling shouting "Please let me but the party planner" a few times She choose Fling to be the party planner so he can stop annoying her. Fling jumps in joy, Draffsack wasn't amused at all nor is Synapse, Fugg and Wasabi as they went off. In Lady Rose's Office she explain Fling they he needs to decided what theme this years will be, as Fling was undecided trying to think what theme he wants to have. He try to suggest disco but everyone might leave after a hour, He also suggest pool party but his pool was a bit dirty, as he was about to give up but then he hatched a idea he suggest a neon themed Lady Rose goes with that idea and state to have their dress code normal as usual but use neon glow sticks and put on their clothes, Fling goes with that, Lady Rose noticed the time as the rainbow shiners are coming any mintute as they everyone in Wuhu Island came outside. 3 8 colored shiners appears and combines together causing the sky to become rainbow like. Everyone (execpt for the kruds) were thrilled about this. Emily took some pictures for Ashley just in case if she missed it. The Kruds noticed the rainbow sky, as they look puzzled a glow appear on the 4 briefly and it disappears, Synapse tries to find out what happen around them but Draffsack state it was just a warm touch and it possbily happen to the citizens is well (not realizing it only effect on them). An hour later the shiners disappeared, Fling sees Slam and told her the great news about him being this years party planner and also stated they his party will start tomorrow evening, so he better set up the hall with neon decoration and some neon glow sticks for clothing Slam was joy but it seems he still loves her, Fling stated that they need a break and suggest to stop the break and carry on their relationship much to Slam's joy. The Kruds arrive at Emily's house and they seems they not feeling too well and explain what happen during the event. Emily found out what happen to them and takes them to the doctors. Prescott explains that the kruds had develop a monstrous infection called The Inner Krud Virus, a virus that turns a krud into a inner krud even though Prescott doesn't know what an inner krud looks like he still knows about it, he explains that a krud gets infected during the great rainbow sky festival much to Emily's horror. In order to slow down the infection Prescott gave the 4 kruds special equipment to go around their bodies and Prescott gave Emily a spare for Draffette is well just in case if she got infected. Pab arrives at Draffette's house to seeing if She got infected by the inner krud virus but she doesn't feel anything as she was inside the whole time as she was with Flam playing video games, Pab believed her as he saw Flam. He told her that Draffsack and The Kruds were infected in Draffette shock and state that he wasn't worth it going out on that event and stay here like her. At the diner struggling not to take off the equipment Draffsack wants to know what a inner krud look likes but Synapse forbids him not take it off until a cure is found they must keep the equipment on as long as they needed. Fling arrive at the diner telling everyone about the neon theme party for tomorrow. Draffsack runs off as he heads towards Emily's house, as Emily and Pab noticed Draffsack coming towards them upon arrival Draffsack convince Emily to take off his equipment and let him mutate Emily denied it at first but Pab told her it will be their chance to see a inner krud, Emily decides to take off Draffsack's equipment. Nothing happens for some reason. Pab stated that the infection could of wear off but Draffsack's right arm starts to tingle, Emily and Pab stand back realizing the infection hasn't wear off. At the mall Fling was with Lady Rose buying some decorations, food, etc Fling spotted a offer on sale for Glow in the dark clothes much of Fling's luck. A shop keeper asks them it great for a neon them and it comes with free glows sticks. Fling takes the clothes and the free glow sticks is well. Returning back to the hall. Fling put the glow in the dark clothes in order and put the glow sticks on the box. Lady Rose tells him that he should start decorating the hall tomorrow. Fling will do his best to wake up early. Back at Emily's house, Draffsack was lying on the chair feeling painful as his arm continues to tingle, into Emily's dismay She shouldn't took Draffsack's equipment off in the first place as of Pab said it could be their chance to see a inner krud. As Pab tries to hold Draffsack's right arm his arm tingle so bad it push off Pab stating that the arm is uncontrollable. At the twins house Slam tells Flam the great news about her and Fling getting back together, Flam was proud but she discuss about the real party planner it was suppose to be Flam but for some reason Fling just beg on Lady Rose and let him be party planner and told her that he was been doing that years, Slam stated that she was there is well, unamusesd Flam decided to crash his party tomorrow much to Slam's horror. At Night Draffsack still struggling pain from his right arm, Emily stated that she must stay here and work on antidote on the inner krud virus and suggest to head to library tomorrow with Her, Pab and Draffsack, But then Draffsack's right arm then suddenly mutates doubling it size, In shocked Pab and Emily discovers its first stage of Inner Krud. To Be Continued in the next episode........
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