Place lobsters in the pot (head first), cover tightly, return to a boil as quickly as possible and start counting the time. Steam a lobster for 8 minutes per pound, for the first pound. Add 3 minutes per pound for each additional pound thereafter. See chart below for approximate cooking times. Regulate the heat if the froth starts to bubble over.
epidemic definition. A contagious disease that spreads rapidly and widely among the population in an area. Immunization and quarantine are two of the methods used to control an epidemic.
For other uses, see Epidemic (disambiguation) . An epidemic (from Greek á¼ÏÎ¯ epi upon or above and Î´á¿Î¼Î¿Ï demos people) is the rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time, usually two weeks or less.efore Hippocrates, epidemios, epidemeo, epidamos, and other variants had meanings similar to the current definitions of indigenous or  endemic .. Thucydides ' description of the Plague of Athens is considered one of the earliest accounts of a disease epidemic.