epidemiologically

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From epidemiological +‎ -ly.

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epidemiologically (not comparable)

  1. With regard to epidemiology.
    • 1981 December 1, Sue Hyde, quoting Paul Black, “AIDS Update: Little To Cheer About”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 3:
      I doubt that [saliva] is very infectious ... I don't think this is a normal route of transmission. If it was, it would be a very different disease epidemiologically.
    • 1993, James L. A. Webb Jr, “The Horse and Slave Trade between the Western Sahara and Senegambia”, in The Journal of African History, volume 34, number 2, →JSTOR, pages 221–246:
      Although the savanna remained an epidemiologically hostile environment for the larger and more desirable horses bred in North Africa, in the high desert and along the desert fringe, Black African states continued to import horses in exchange for slaves into the period of French colonial rule.

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