What's the difference between epidemic and epidemy?
Epidemic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Epidemical
(n.) An epidemic disease.
(n.) Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
(2) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(3) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(4) And, as elsewhere in this epidemic, those on the frontline paid the highest price: four of the seven fatalities were health workers, including Adadevoh.
(5) Control measures were introduced rapidly, effectively stopping the epidemic.
(6) To identify the responsible virus and the consequences of the epidemic, during 1985 we interviewed and serologically screened 597 veterans who had been in the army in 1942.
(7) In late 1983 the Hagahai sought medical aid at a mission station, an event which accelerated their contact with the common epidemic diseases of the highlands.
(8) Two epidemics of meningoencephalitis caused by echovirus type 7 and coxsackievirus type B 5 in the summer and autumn of 1973 in Umeå in Northern Sweden were compared.
(9) What impact will the HIV epidemic have in the 1990s?
(10) This virus is related to HIV-1, the causative agent of the AIDS epidemic now spreading in Central and East Africa, as well as the USA and Europe (see ref.
(11) Our data showed that V. cholerae 01 was the most frequently (40%) isolated enteropathogen during the epidemics.
(12) To define more completely the period of fecal excretion of virus during hepatitis A virus infection, we studied 24 fecal samples from six children with clinical illness during an epidemic of type A hepatitis.
(13) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(14) Patients with reactive arthritis, sacroiliitis, spondylitis or Reiter's syndrome following intestinal infection from Yersinia, Salmonella, Shigella or Campylobacter organisms have been reported from endemic areas and after epidemic dysenteries.
(15) This virus was imported on multiple occasions from a Philippine supplier of cynomolgus macaques as a consequence of an epidemic of acute infections in the foreign holding facility.
(16) And we owe [Hickox] better than that and all the people who do this work better than that.” The White House indicated that it was urgently reviewing the federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers, “recognising that these medical professionals’ selfless efforts to fight this disease on the front lines will be critical to bringing this epidemic under control, the only way to eliminate the risk of additional cases here at home”.
(17) The Authors report the results of IgM and IgA assays in blood of the umbilical cord of 1694 newborns during the period from October 1973 to July 1974 after a rubella epidemic occurred in Piedmont.
(18) The authors studied the pattern of occurrence of toxic oil syndrome, a previously undescribed disease that occurred in Spain in epidemic form in 1981, in two convents in Madrid.
(19) Analysis of the epidemic curve and intervals of onset of multiple cases within households suggested prolonged common source exposure rather than secondary person-to-person transmission.
(20) Galli said there were already about 200,000 hospitalisations of women who have undergone a clandestine termination every year, and a suspected 1 million illegal abortions before the epidemic.
Epidemy
Definition:
(n.) An epidemic disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scabies epidemy being observed since 1965, had developed from persistent endemic centres and pursues continuous the cyclic course of the scabies humanis in periods of 15 to 20 years.
(2) The hydrological origin of epidemy was not probable.
(3) A recent trichinosis epidemy involved around hundred patients in southern Paris suburbs; most frequent and marked clinical features were: facial and palpebral oedema, fever, bowel troubles (mostly constipation; diarrhea was seldom) and muscular tenderness.
(4) In all, the study of maternal antecedents and the circumstances of their outcome as small epidemy suggest a raisonable evidence that postnatal contamination within the early twenty-four hours of life happened.
(5) Small epidemies occur enlarged in institutions for newborns and toddlers.
(6) In psoriatic epidemis and epidermal tumors KL3 reactivity was drastically modified.
(7) An epidemy of fatal posterior weakness was observed in Norwegian dairy goats with a spontaneous character (high fever, collapse, death).
(8) During 1971-1973 anterior to choleric epidemy of 1973, alot of 2680 mussel's specimens were examined with the ACIS 1949 method, of which 60% (1611) favorable and 39.9% (1069) contrary; a single semple presented a S. paratyphi B germ.
(9) On the other hand, recent data indicate an alarming acceleration of the African epidemy, that spreads well beyond the risk groups which have been recognized in Western countries.
(10) In opinion of the WHO, AIDS and smoking are the two major epidemies, and smoking is the most important avoidable risk for health.
(11) Due to drug-efficiency, the coprological proof of the disease was generally missing in the old "epidemies" of the Maghreb.
(12) A bibliographic survey is made of the cases of fasciolasis in Maghreb, and it can be concluded that: The notion of "epidemy", or better, of simultaneous cases, brought to the diagnosis evocation, to explorations by I.D.R.
(13) There is no evidence, however, that African epidemy precedes that of the U.S., for which there is no explanation at present.
(14) During 1971 and 1972, years of grip epidemies, ARD and grip were responsible for 20--25 per cent of TIW and together with the days of TIW spent on attendance of children with ARD and grip--they were responsible for over one third of TIW for all diseases.
(15) The host reservoir of virus of this small epidemy is not dog but must be looked for in wild rodents, the multiplication of which seems related to the growing dispersed dumping of town refuse on wide suburban areas.
(16) A real epidemy of cutaneous cancer has appeared from 1954 in a french area specialized in the metal machining industry (valley of the Arve, Haute-Saoie).
(17) Nevertheless, the possible occurrence of sporadical epidemies and isolated cases of trichinosis has to be kept in mind.
(18) The strain classified as Enterobacter hafniae has been isolated in a severe epidemy of porcine diarrhoea.
(19) In this paper were presented results of isolation of vira from some organs of the dead newborn infants during the epidemy Coxsackie B virosis in Sarajevo in 1985.
(20) On these grounds, the parietal, basal and oreolar cells are considered to be proliferative cells, while the light and apical ones-to be their derivatives in the epidemis epithelium.