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Diseases are epidemic

Diseases epidemic (morbi epidemici; epidemia, Greek epi – among + Greek demos – the people) – infectious diseases of which under certain favorable conditions mass distribution is characteristic.

 
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The most rare disease – a disease the Kura. Only representatives of the tribe Faure in New Guinea are ill it. The patient dies of laughter. It is considered that eating of a human brain is an origin of a disease.