Health Care

Disease Outbreaks

Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease. The concept includes EPIDEMICS and PANDEMICS.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease. The concept includes EPIDEMICS and PANDEMICS.

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Synonyms

10 entry terms
  • Infectious Disease Outbreaks
  • Outbreaks
  • Disease Outbreak
  • Disease Outbreak, Infectious
  • Disease Outbreaks, Infectious
  • Infectious Disease Outbreak
  • Outbreak, Disease
  • Outbreak, Infectious Disease
  • Outbreaks, Disease
  • Outbreaks, Infectious Disease

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Aspects Covered

8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, statistics & numerical data, veterinary.

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Indexing Annotation

coordinate IM with specific disease / epidemiol (IM) & specify geographic location if pertinent; differentiate from EPIDEMICS, follow terminology in text

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  1. N06.850w.290w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Disease Outbreaks. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004196. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004196
  2. Disease Outbreaks. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_outbreak
  3. Disease Outbreaks. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3241045