What does an epidemic mean?

This is a sentence handed down from ancient times, and there is no specific source.

Epidemic refers to infectious diseases, and residents in this area have similar symptoms, such as fever, diarrhea and vomiting. If not treated in time, it will lead to serious consequences such as death.

During the feudal society, the level of urbanization was very low and the medical conditions were also very low. Whenever a serious natural disaster occurs, people can easily feel the epidemic gas and break out in a large area.

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Types of epidemic diseases:

There are 35 kinds of infectious diseases in China. According to the provisions of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (in the traditional sense), the health administrative departments of the State Council and the State Council can decide the increase or decrease of infectious diseases according to their respective authorities.

1. Class A infectious diseases are also called compulsory management infectious diseases, including plague and cholera.

2. Class B infectious diseases, also known as strictly controlled infectious diseases, include: viral hepatitis, bacterial and amoebic dysentery, typhoid and paratyphoid, AIDS, gonorrhea, syphilis, polio, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, scarlet fever, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, rabies, leptospirosis, brucellosis, anthrax, epidemic and endemic typhus, epidemic Japanese encephalitis, and epidemic encephalitis.

3. Class C infectious diseases are also called monitoring and management infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, filariasis, echinococcosis, leprosy, influenza, mumps, wind diagnosis, neonatal tetanus, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, and infectious diarrhea except cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever.

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Baidu encyclopedia-after the arrival of the enemy, there will be a great epidemic, and after the great epidemic, there will be a great famine.