Before beginning the activity, you may wish to review terms, such as: airborne, antibodies, antigens, bacteria, contagious, epidemic, epidemiology, foodborne, infectious, quarantine, virus, and waterborne.
It was not only a summer break (Santa really sweats on his Christmas rounds down under), which most academics are using for traveling to collaborators, but apparently a highly contagious epidemic of pregnancies hit the department and many of the faculty members were on parental leave.
"This is one of now hundreds of studies that, if you add them all up, there's no way of seeing it other than violence being a contagious epidemic health problem," said Slutkin, founder of Cure Violence at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.
Indeed, whereas Thucydides used nosos, the term plague, which is used by all the translators of his work, is used in the sense of the Latin term pestis, a term with no clear etymology (4 ), meaning contagious disease, epidemic, or scourge.
Conference realignment's contagious nature reached epidemic proportions between the 2011-2013 seasons, as these newly minted TV and multi-platform networks provided huge upsides for their members.
Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious, economically devastating epidemic disease of cloven-hoofed animals, affecting up to 70 domesticated and wild species. 1 The etiological agent, foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), is a nonenveloped ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus belonging to the Aphthovirus genus within the family Picornaviridae.
This demon, along with his children, is responsible for epidemics of contagious diseases, and he has a special fondness for those spread by parasites.
It derives from a mathematical insight known as geometrical progression and is most commonly used to help predict the speed at which epidemics of contagious disease are likely to spread.
Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis are highly contagious and develop into epidemics quickly in large, populated areas.
There have been epidemics of contagious pustular dermatitis.
