Noun
any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people
Source: WordNetWhining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease. Peter Høeg
If today the Middle Ages are retiring into the thick shadows of convents, it is due to triumphant skepticism; and if the epidemic disease of religion no longer appears with the terrible intensity of former times, it is due to the diminution of the political power of the Church. Benito Mussolini