epidemic disease

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epidemic disease - any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people pest, pestilence, plague - any epidemic disease with a high death rate infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact pest, pestilence, pestis, plague - a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal Bornholm disease, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, epidemic pleurodynia, myosis - an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)