infectious disease outbreak

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.

Observed surface forms (2)

• disease outbreak ×1
• global health disaster ×1

Instances (3)

• Third Plague Pandemic
• 2015–2016 Zika virus outbreak via concept surface "disease outbreak"
• 1918 influenza pandemic via concept surface "global health disaster"