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Cholera can spread two ways: endemically or epidemically.

From Scientific American • Jan. 3, 2018

In old Haba�a filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically.

From Time Magazine Archive

It existed in Michigan between 1868 and 1874, but only in the latter year epidemically, and not to a very great extent.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The metaphor of germs would be more appropriate if applied to the ideas of the party-programmes, for these ideas are introduced by a few wise or foolish men and disseminated epidemically throughout their respective parties.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

DIAGNOSIS.—When dengue appears epidemically, it is distinguished from other diseases without difficulty.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various