Epidemic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...called "outbreaks" by epidemiologists, may also be caused by new disease agents in the human population, such as the Ebola virus . A worldwide epidemic is known as a pandemic, e.g., the influenza pandemic of 1918 or the AIDS pandemic beginning...