Meanings
plural epizoötics
- Dated spelling of epizootic.
Y. pestis is able to live in the dark, moist environment of rodent burrows even after the rodents have been killed by an epizoötic, or epidemic.
1983, Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe, paperback edition, Free Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 7, →ISBN
- not comparableDated spelling of epizootic.
A fourth group, however, was very common — diseases transferred to humans from animal hosts, with animals acting either as intermediaries, as with malaria or typhus, or as primary or secondary epizoötic victims, as with bubonic plague.
1983, Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe, paperback edition, Free Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 3, →ISBN
Origin
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