infectious disease outbreak
C12805
concept
An infectious disease outbreak is a sudden increase in the occurrence of a specific infectious disease within a particular population, community, or region over a given period of time.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| disease outbreak | 5 |
| global health disaster | 1 |
| historical epidemic | 1 |
| infectious disease outbreak canonical | 1 |
| virtual epidemic | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: infectious disease outbreak
Generated description
An infectious disease outbreak is a sudden increase in the occurrence of a specific infectious disease within a particular population, community, or region over a given period of time.
Instances (9)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| 2017 Équateur Province Ebola outbreak | disease outbreak |
| Outbreak of Antonine Plague | disease outbreak |
| Corrupted Blood incident | virtual epidemic |
| Athenian plague | disease outbreak |
| Plague of Amwas | historical epidemic |
| Third Plague Pandemic | — |
| 2015–2016 Zika virus outbreak | disease outbreak |
| 1918 influenza pandemic | global health disaster |
| Plague of Cyprian | disease outbreak |