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epidemic
(a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time)
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epidemic
((especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously)
"an epidemic outbreak of influenza"