Sentence examples for epizootic from inspiring English sources
noun
An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population of non-human animals at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period. Compare epidemic.
- At the same time as an epidemic of the flu broke out among the people, an epizootic of the swine flu broke out among their pigs.
Daniel J. Salkeld of Stanford University and colleagues used data from black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies in Colorado to develop computational models that simulated periods of epidemics (epizootic phase) and quiescence (enzootic phase) in the plague bacterium (Yersinia pestis) transmitted by the prairie dog flea (Oropsylla hirsuta).
A more precise term when speaking of plants, however, is epiphytotic ("on plants"); for animals, the corresponding term is epizootic.
The alternative hypothesis was that epizootic events result from an increased pathogen load in host animals after the pathogens have been activated by changes in the environment, changes in host population behaviour, or shifts in abundance and distribution patterns of host (e.g., prairie dog) and vector (e.g., flea) of the disease.
The recent history of the seminomadic, pastoral Karimojong is marked by misfortune: epizootic diseases have decimated cattle herds, locust plagues and drought have caused crop failures and famine, and epidemics have been common.
On the Atlantic coast, scientists think that lobsters, which are a major economic boon for parts of New England, are likely to be further afflicted by an epizootic shell disease linked to warmer waters.
Spread of the infection among wild or domestic rodents in the vicinity of human habitations creates conditions favourable for outbreaks of human plague, for when an epizootic outbreak kills off the rodents, fleas from the dead animals fail to find another rodent host and thus begin to infest humans.
The investigators considered two basic hypotheses to explain the contrasting epizootic-enzootic patterns observed in plague and other transmittable epidemic diseases.
The mortality in ordinary mild epizootics (animal epidemics) is only about 5 percent, but malignant forms of the disease have led to losses of up to 50 percent.
The article, "Epizootics," was written by Gershon Legman, the folklorist and author of "Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor".
"Epizootics!" — the title means epidemics among animals — rides a horn section, hand claps, a sometimes swinging beat and a slide guitar.
Epizootics – disease events among an animal population – are also a common culprit.
