(1) It occurs most frequently as an epizootic or enzootic disease of herbivores that acquire spores from direct contact with contaminated soil.(2) Transport to the nearest high-risk material processing plant of animals infected or suspected of being infected with an epizootic disease is rejected because of the danger of propagation of health risks.(3) Our results show distinctive and predictable temporal patterning to epizootic rabies occurring among raccoons at the level of counties.(4) If a commercial breed were to be hit by a devastating epizootic disease, the genes of a hardy rare breed could be used to help re-establish the immunity of a commercial one.(5) u2018To date, our country has remained vigilant and successful in keeping out many epizootic diseases that have occurred in some parts of the SADC region,u2019 said the head of state.(6) Several epizootics in wildlife have been associated with elevated exposure to contaminants.(7) That is, epizootics , such as outbreaks of cattle plague or foot and mouth disease, repeatedly have wreaked economic havoc without making people sick.(8) Several epizootics have been associated with elevated contaminant exposure.(9) Dynamics of periodic disease epizootics , low reproductive rates, and avian dispersal may contribute to rarity in many Hawaiian forest bird species.(10) In 1985 the last wild population experienced simultaneous epizootics of canine distemper and sylvatic plague.