Examples of using "épidémies" in a sentence and their english translations:
disease outbreaks and starvation.
When diseases happen, when epidemics happen,
to understand how and why these epidemics happen.
You want to be armed against the spread of epidemics.
In ancient times, plagues killed many people.
Vaccination promises the end of this fear of epidemics.
So, the difference between epidemics and pandemics is one of scale.