virgin soil epidemic

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Coined by Alfred W. Crosby.

Noun[edit]

virgin soil epidemic (plural virgin soil epidemics)

  1. An epidemic in which the populations at risk have had no previous contact with the disease and therefore have almost no immunological defence.
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