Relapsing rickettsial diseases are known to exist, such as Brill disease, a recurrent form of epidemic typhus (22 ).
Despite this alarming emergence of a severe and fatal form of epidemic dengue, the disease was still considered a minor public health problem by policymakers.
Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila is a gram-negative γ-Proteobacterium and the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, a form of epidemic pneumonia.
Brill-Zinsser disease is a recurrent form of epidemic typhus that is unrelated to louse infestation and develops sporadically years after the primary illness.
Behind the development of surveillance tools for ID events, growing research suggests that untapped driver signals could be quantified and monitored to anticipate emergence risk as a new form of epidemic intelligence.
If epidemics at the district level are considered the smallest form of epidemic waves, our results lend support to the concept that epidemic waves are the sum of individual localised epidemics and their importance depend on the number of localised epidemics that occur simultaneously.
Influenza A viruses belongs to a group of the best studied viruses, yet they pose a challenge to the human population in the form of epidemics and pandemics.
The fact that P. falciparium prevails in the area mainly for short period of time following heavy rainfall from September to November usually in the form of epidemics [ 47], might have played a role in increasing the number of cases with altitude, as more susceptible individuals are exposed to the infection for relatively shorter duration due to the wave of epidemics.
The consequence has come to pass in the form of an epidemic of computer malware and rising concerns about cyberwarfare as a threat to global security, voiced alarmingly this month by the defense secretary, Leon E. Panetta, who warned of a possible "cyber-Pearl Harbor" attack on the United States.
One source has a certain Philodemus driven from the Sicilian town of Himera when his teachings were thought to have incurred divine wrath in the form of an epidemic (Aelian, in Suda, s.vv. Himeraiai, sukophantein, and timôntai; cf. Sider 1997, 9 10).
