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epidemic

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Adjective

(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously
- an epidemic outbreak of influenza

Noun

a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time

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Antonyms:
endemic endemical ecdemic

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