English Explanatory Dictionary

virgin soil epidemic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

virgin soil epidemic virgin soil epidemics

Etymology

Coined by Alfred W. Crosby.

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