The phrase "a mild epidemic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an outbreak of a disease that is not severe or widespread, indicating a lower level of impact compared to a severe epidemic.
Example: "The health department reported a mild epidemic of the flu this season, with only a few cases requiring hospitalization."
Alternatives: "a minor outbreak" or "a slight epidemic".
In a mild epidemic, where few people died, rejection of the vaccine made far more sense.
Government scientists who are studying the virus said early analysis showed it was likely to cause only a mild epidemic, probably no worse than anything seen in a normal flu season.
Furthermore, this model, that assumes that a mild epidemic protects against SARS would predict that a vaccine is possible, and may soon be created.
Remarkably, according to these estimates the pandemic vaccine will be available in time only in case of a mild epidemic (see Figure 2b).
If a mild epidemic spreads rapidly through the community, there might be multiple points of entry into the hospital; however, such a mild community outbreak might present more commonly to primary healthcare clinics and presentations to hospital may be few.
The combination of a mild epidemic and lack of strategy imposition meant that the average number of days adults spent at home either sick or tending sick children was 2 (range 0.4 2.4) over the course of the pandemic.
Therefore, the assumption that hepatitis D superinfection causes HBV carriers to go again through the acute HBV stage results in a milder epidemic than if they would directly progress to chronic dual infection.
The outbreak highlighted many national weaknesses: old, slow vaccine technology; too much reliance on foreign vaccine factories; some major hospitals pushed to their limits by a relatively mild epidemic.
This was a relatively mild epidemic year in Australia, with the B Malaysia strain, which was included in the local 2006 vaccine (32 ), predominating.
An earlier study of this computational model demonstrated that closing schools and curtailing contacts of children and teenagers for the duration of a mild 1957-like epinemic in a stylized community reduced the number of infected persons by >90% (10 ).
Moreover, all three changes could be a part of the adaptation strategy of swine-origin A(H1N1 pdm09 virus to human host, which resulted in virus transition from severe pandemic to mild epidemic mode (Elderfield et al. 2014; Mishel et al. 2015).
