The term refers those diseases the incidence of which has increased during the past two decades. Prominent examples are AIDS, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and ebola.
所謂新興傳染病，是指近二十年來人類感染發生率增加的傳染病，例如：愛滋病、漢他病毒肺症候群、伊波拉病毒等。