Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Events (hierarchy name)
4. events (activities)
5. epidemics

Narrower term/s

• cocoliztli (smallpox and other sickness)

Anotations

Scope note:

Epidemics or pandemics of infectious disease that spread rapidly and have a high mortality rate, whether among people or animals. A prime example is the Black Death, an infectious fever caused by the bacillus Yersinia pestis.