With updates about the Zita virus in the news, I've received multiple questions about what this really means. So here are comments related to some of those questions.
The term epidemic typically has been used to describe a condition in which
contagious diseases spread rapidly among many people, in a section of a State
of country or in the country as a whole. Unfortunately, epidemics are nothing
new.
For example:
The plague of Athens
(perhaps typhoid) in Greece (c 429-426 BC) that killed 75,000-100,000
The Cocoliztli epidemic (viral hemorrhagic fever) in the United States of Mexico c 1576 that killed 50 percent of the populations (estimated to be somewhere between two and two and a half million)
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With updates about the Zita virus in the news, I've received
multiple questions about what this really means. So here are comments related
to some of those questions.
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