Epidemic
[n] a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
[adj] (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"
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