virus spread
Disease moving between hosts
Virus spread refers to the transmission and proliferation of a virus through a population or system.
In medicine, it describes how infectious diseases move from person to person: Officials struggled to contain the virus spread.
The term applies equally to computer viruses moving through networks.
Spread can be slow and contained or rapid and exponential, depending on conditions and countermeasures.
- contagionDisease spread by contact
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- community spreadDisease circulating locally, source unknown
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
pandemic · rapid spread · transmission · airborne · droplets · sneeze · cough · viral load · close contact · quarantine · isolation · superspreader · patient zero · carrier · fever · contamination · surge · wave
- epidemic controlquarantine zone, quarantine station, disease outbreak, outbreak, epidemic
- epidemiologyepidemic, epidemiology, pandemic, outbreak, endemic