A viral haemorrhagic fever primarily occurring in Scandinavia and NW Russia, caused by a type of hantavirus spread by voles.

German measles, rubella.

Synonym of virgin fields epidemic

plural of greenfield epidemic

(epidemiology) a predefined threshold for the number of cases of a contagious disease above which the disease is considered to be at epidemic levels.

Alternative form of antiepidemic.

(medicine, pathology) An epidemic with unusually serious consequences resulting from contact of an infectious and/or contagious agent with a population not previously exposed to it.

plural of virgin fields epidemic