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In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurrences of a disease when cases are in excess of normal expectancy for the location or season. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire continent.
Films about viral outbreaks, epidemics or pandemics of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals.
The 2009 flu epidemic was a key inspiration and influence on the creation of Contagion. An electron microscope image of the SARS virus. The 2003 SARS outbreak was also an inspiration and influence of Contagion. Soderbergh was motivated to make an "ultra-realistic" film about public health and scientific response to a pandemic. [24]
The coronavirus is on everyone’s minds. As an epidemiologist, I find it interesting to hear people using technical terms – like quarantine or super spreader or reproductive number – that my ...
Fire is not a film about lesbians", but rather about "the choices we make in life". [42] [43] In 2010, veteran film critic and activist Shoni Ghosh wrote a book named Fire: A Queer Film Classic that studies in detail the movie as well the controversies ignited by the film. The book detail the situations that lead to the chaos and its aftermath.
For a given epidemic or pandemic, the average of its estimated death toll range is used for ranking. If the death toll averages of two or more epidemics or pandemics are equal, then the smaller the range, the higher the rank. For the historical records of major changes in the world population, see world population. [3]
The Plague of Athens (c. 1652 –1654) by Michiel Sweerts, illustrating the devastating epidemic that struck Athens in 430 BC, as described by the historian Thucydides. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines epidemic broadly: "Epidemic refers to an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population in ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, as with other pandemics, the meaning of this term has been challenged. [14] The end of a pandemic or other epidemic only rarely involves the total disappearance of a disease, and historically, much less attention has been given to defining the ends of epidemics than their beginnings.