ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture 2: Week 2
6 Dec 2017
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What is an epidemic: endemic, epidemic, pandemic. Of the disease or condition regularly found among particular people or in a certain area: denoting an area in which a particular disease is regularly found. Entrenched in a region, country or continenet: e. g. Medical intervention may cure individuals but does not prevent disease spread. Endemic diseases can cycle through epidemic phases. The occurrence in a community (or region) of cases of an illness in excess of normal expectancy (last 2001:60) Cases of a disease normally present in a community increase through time: e. g. Or (cid:862)(cid:374)e(cid:449)(cid:863) disease that affe(cid:272)ts (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) people i(cid:374) short period of ti(cid:373)e: e. g. Hong kong before february 2003: but the curve rises and falls, note how the curves for the different locations take on different shapes, the epidemic curve for sars looks quite different from tb in new york city. Plague arrived in messina october of 1347 and spread to other parts of western europe.
