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An epidemic is when many many people seem to contract a disease or illness almost at once.

The reason medical professionals recommend flu shots each year is so that the area can avoid an epidemic.

London's Bubonic Plague epidemic of 1665 was the worst in that city's history.

The Black Plague epidemic killed nearly 1/3 of Europe's population in the Middle Ages.
There was an epidemic outbreak of measles in the summer of 1978. The measles outbreak has reached epidemic proportions in 1978.

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