English-Finnish translations for epidemic

• epideeminen
• epidemia
  Mahdollinen influenssaepidemia? A potential influenza epidemic?
  Uhkaako naisten terveyttä jonkinlainen epidemia? Is women’s health threatened by an epidemic?
  Seksuaalisesta väkivallasta on tulossa epidemia. Sexual violence is becoming an epidemic.
• kulkutauti
  Tämä kesäinen kulkutauti on siten parannettavissa, arvoisa puhemies. So this summer epidemic is curable, Mr President.
  Populismi on uusi kulkutauti, jota vastaan on taisteltava liberaaleilla keinoilla ja jota ei pidä rohkaista. Populism is the new epidemic, which must be fought with liberal means and should not be encouraged.
  Muistan, kun 1950-luvulla eristettiin kokonaisia kyliä, jotta kulkutauti ei leviäisi. I remember back in the 1950s, when whole villages were quarantined in order to prevent the epidemic from spreading.
• kulkutaudinomainen

Definition of epidemic

• A widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population
• Like or having to do with an epidemic; widespread

Examples

• Epidemic hysteria occurred upon the incumbent’s reelection

Related words

• epidemicity
• epidemical
• epidemic nephropathy
• cholera epidemic
• plague epidemic
• psychological epidemic