The phrase "acute epidemic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden and severe outbreak of a disease or health condition that affects a large number of people in a specific area.
Example: "The region faced an acute epidemic of influenza, overwhelming local healthcare facilities."
Alternatives: "severe outbreak" or "intense epidemic".
Norovirus (NV) is a major cause of acute, epidemic nonbacterial gastroenteritis in individuals of all ages.
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the major cause of acute epidemic and sporadic hepatitis in the developing world.
"This is the first time that we've really gone hell for leather to try to set a trial up during an acute epidemic and it's been the mother of all epidemics really," he told me.
This syndrome constitutes an acute, epidemic, and time-limited infection in camels <4 years of age, particularly calves.
Norovirus (NoV) has been identified as the primary etiologic agent of acute epidemic viral gastroenteritis in industrialized countries (1, 2 ).
In Europe, tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) has been known since 1931, when an outbreak of an "acute epidemic serous meningitis" was reported in south-eastern Austria.
Two core public health actions of acute (epidemic-type) (core activity #7) and planned (management-type) (core activity #8) responses rely upon messages derived from surveillance.
Acute (epidemic-type) responses occur directly, reactively, and generally include immediate public health actions (e.g., epidemic investigation, contact follow-up, or targeted interventions designed to stop the ongoing transmission of disease).
In application, country-level reformers measure both the presence and performance of the six core activities comprising public health surveillance (detection, registration, reporting, confirmation, analyses, and feedback) and acute (epidemic-type) and planned (management-type) responses composing the two core activities of public health action.
22 Second, the typical chronic nature of MNDs does not command a sense of urgency to act, for example compared with acute epidemics or famines.
In India, the disease has been found more commonly associated with natural disasters especially during the monsoon period at which times acute epidemics may eventuate [ 13].
