You have an answer: "epidemiology" (the study of epidemics, using the tools of statistics) is, you say, "the science of determining the cause of disease."

A journalist's study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.

González Martínez was interested in epidemiology, the scientific study of epidemics, and went to Lisboa, Portugal with a Spanish commission who wanted to learn ways of controlling the spread of epidemics.

Our forecast of the future of heroin use in Wirral has its foundations in epidemiology, the scientific study of epidemics.

The New Yorker staff writer took the trope from epidemiology, the study of epidemics: "The tipping point is that moment in an epidemic when a virus reaches critical mass, the moment on the graph when the line starts to shoot straight upwards."

The term 'epidemiology' has first been used to describe the study of epidemics in 1802 by the Spanish physician Villalba.

Rogers had a wide range of interests in tropical medicine, from the study of kala-azar epidemics to sea snake venoms, but is best known for pioneering the treatment of cholera with hypertonic saline, which has saved a multitude of lives.

Epidemiology - study of the demographics of disease processes, and includes, but is not limited to, the study of epidemics.

In 1977, he went to SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, where he adapted his interest in history by focusing on the study of epidemics.

He did extensive studies of epidemics that plagued Paris, and is additionally credited with providing the first clinical description of pertussis (whooping cough) in 1578.