epizootic

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Kheraj noted that the epizootic lasted a few weeks in one city before moving to the next.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2023

In both the epizootic of 150 years ago and the pandemic today, he said, “you see how quickly people want things to return to normal.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2023

It also raises concerns about epizootic shell disease, which disfigures lobsters to the point that they can’t be sold.

From Washington Times • May 13, 2018

That’s because rinderpest is an epizootic, an animal disease.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2011

If Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes acted as the intermediate host of a disease-causing organism, an epizootic from Microtus ochrogaster might be transmitted to Pitymys nemoralis or to Sigmodon hispidus or Blarina brevicauda.

From Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] by Jameson, E. W.