crowd disease
crowd disease noun: a disease that is spread from person to person, with no animal reservoir.
Noun
crowd disease (plural crowd diseases)
- A disease that is spread from person to person, with no animal reservoir.
- Crowd diseases, which are among the oldest established infections that humans have endured, emerged in the Old World centers of Mesopotamian civilization (the region now occupied by modern Iraq, eastern Syria, and southeastern Turkey) and India, where settled agricultural and pastoral societies...2011, Patricia J. Campbell, Aran MacKinnon, Christy R. Stevens, An Introduction to Global Studies, →ISBN, page 190
- The crowd diseases could not have existed before the origins of agriculture around 11,000 years ago. Only with the explosive population growth made possible by agriculture did human populations reach the high numbers required to sustain our crowd diseases.2013, Jared Diamond, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?, →ISBN
Forms of crowd disease
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Origin of crowd disease
Compound of crowd + disease.
Questions about crowd disease
- What does crowd disease mean?
- Crowd disease means a disease that is spread from person to person, with no animal reservoir.
- What part of speech is crowd disease?
- Crowd disease is a noun.
- What is the plural of crowd disease?
- The plural of crowd disease is crowd diseases.
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