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  1. 4 days ago · Pandemic, outbreak of infectious disease that occurs over a wide geographical area and that is of high prevalence, generally affecting a significant proportion of the world’s population over the course of several months. Learn about how pandemics arise and about pandemic preparedness and historical pandemics.

    • SARS

      SARS epidemic, 2002–03. SARS, highly contagious respiratory...

    • Plasmodium

      plasmodium, in fungi (kingdom Fungi), a mobile multinucleate...

    • Epidemic

      epidemic, an occurrence of disease that is temporarily of...

  2. 2 days ago · An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections, an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered an epidemic.

  3. 1 day ago · Vinod Goklani, Mandvi’s mamlatdar (tehsildar) has been appointed as the epidemic control authority for the epidemic zone. Advertisement While water drawn from various parts of the town are sent for testing, “25 teams of the health department are going door-to-door for surveillance,” said Goklani, adding that the restrictions will remain for a month.

  4. 3 days ago · Cholera has a long history in India, with the first recorded pandemic originating in the Ganges Delta in 1817 and spreading across the world. By 1831, the epidemic had reached Newcastle, tracing a path from India to Russia to London and finally to Newcastle, most likely through trade routes.

  5. 1 day ago · The loneliness epidemic profoundly affects Gen Z. Despite being hyperconnected through social media, they experience high levels of isolation, worsened by the pandemic. The consequences are severe ...

  6. 5 days ago · Evaluating the Shock Index, Revised Assessment of Bleeding and Transfusion (RABT), Assessment of Blood Consumption (ABC) and novel PTTrauma score to predict critical transfusion threshold (CAT) in...

  7. 5 days ago · Epidemic diseases affect us all. They do not respect borders. As the COVID-19 pandemic showed, in a world characterised by increasing population density, human mobility and ecological change, emerging infectious diseases pose a real and growing threat to global health security.