Outbreak is a classification used in epidemiology to describe a small, localised epidemic, often contained to a village or a small town, while the term epidemic means that the disease affects a region in a country or a group of countries. The term pandemic, finally, is used to describe a global epidemic.

Types

• Common source
• Propagated
• Zoonotic

See also

• epidemiology
• bacterium
• virus

External links

• List of outbreaks in GIDEON

Epidemiology