epidemically

• a word derived from epidemic.

Example Sentences

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

In this country it has been over and over again remarked, that, so far back as 1669, the spasmodic cholera prevailed epidemically under the observation of Dr. Sydenham, who records it.

From Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. by Gillkrest, J. (James)

I think it should, for it is contagious, infectious, runs a fairly definite course, is attended with invariable external appearances, often prevails epidemically, and one attack preserves in most instances from a second.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles

He talked about pestilence due to wounds, and declared that he had seen it spread epidemically from one patient to another in hospital wards.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.

Related Words

• contagion
• outbreak
• pest
• plague
• rash
• scourge
• spread
• wave