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Definition
a widespread outbreak of a disease that is passed from one person (or other organism) to another
or more rarely: anything that spreads quickly — especially something bad
or more rarely: anything that spreads quickly — especially something bad
- Malnourishment-related diseases were epidemic.p. 149.6
- Malnutrition-related diseases were epidemic, as was explosive diarrhea—"the benjo [latrine] boogie"—which led men to swallow lumps of coal to slow the digestive waterfall.p. 177.3
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