Doctors' behavior in past epidemics shows no consistent pattern.
The main purpose of the system is the detection and intervention in possible epidemics.
In major epidemics, the attack rate range is 100 to 800 people per 100,000.
The flu strikes in outbreaks and epidemics, affecting a large group of people at once.
Death rates of 50 percent have been recorded in epidemics.
This is also a surprisingly familiar pattern in epidemics.
Learning through modelling and competition between patients are likely to be important factors in such epidemics.
In epidemics, the messenger matters: messengers are what make something spread.
Herpes zoster has no relationship to season and does not occur in epidemics.
And red meat has been most often implicated in deadly epidemics.