| Dynamics of periodic disease epizootics, low reproductive rates, and avian dispersal may contribute to rarity in many Hawaiian forest bird species. |
| The Cetacean morbillivirus in particular has been known to cause regional epizootics often leaving hundreds of animals of various species dead. |
| Swine plague spreads very quickly in wild boar, with epizootics being recorded in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, the Caucasus, the Far East, Kazakhstan, and other regions. |
| In 1985 the last wild population experienced simultaneous epizootics of canine distemper and sylvatic plague. |
| That is, epizootics, such as outbreaks of cattle plague or foot and mouth disease, repeatedly have wreaked economic havoc without making people sick. |
| Several epizootics in wildlife have been associated with elevated exposure to contaminants. |
