English-Hungarian translations for epizootic

• járványos
  Ha nem használnánk antibiotikumokat, az állatok körében terjedő betegségek és a járványos állatbetegségek gyors ütemben elterjednének és epidémiává alakulnának, ami tetemes gazdasági károkat okozna. If antibiotics were not used, animal diseases and epizootics could quickly spread and become epidemics, causing enormous economic damage.
  A cél az volt, hogy a termelők számára egy minimumjövedelmet biztosítsunk bizonyos körülmények, például aszályok, viharok, jégesők, erdőtüzek vagy járványos állatbetegségek esetén. The aim was to guarantee farmers a minimum income in certain circumstances such as public disasters like droughts, storms, hail, forest fires or epizootic diseases.

Definition of epizootic

• An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population of non-human animals at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period. Compare '''''epidemic'''''
• A particular epizootic#adjective|epizootic disease
• A disease or ailment
• Like or having to do with an ''epizootic'': epidemic among animals
• Containing fossils
• Relating to epizoa; epizoic

Examples

• At the same time as an epidemic of the flu broke out among the people, an epizootic of the swine flu broke out among their pigs.
• Johnnys not doing so well today, I think he caught the epizootic.
• Epizootic plague occurred in the mice following introduction of rats from Europe.

Related words

• epizootiology
• epizootic disease
• epizootic lymphangitis