Pandemic

A Pandemic is an epidemic that ...

• Context:
  • it can (typically) be a Viral Pandemic, such as an influenza pandemic.
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• Example(s):
  • Plague Of Justinian (541-542).
  • The Black Death (1346-1353).
  • Third Cholera Pandemic (1846-1860).
  • Flu Pandemic (1889-1890).
  • Sixth Cholera Pandemic (1899-1923).
  • 1918 H1N1 Flu Pandemic.
  • Flu Pandemic (1968).
  • HIV/AIDS Pandemic.
  • 2009 Flu Pandemic.
  • COVID-19 Pandemic.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Viral Meme.
• See: Communicable Disease, Endemic Disease, Influenza Pandemic, Seasonal Flu, Smallpox, Tuberculosis.

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References

2020

• (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pandemic Retrieved:2020-3-12.
  • A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν pan "all" and δῆμος demos "people") is a disease epidemic that has spread across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or worldwide.

    A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic. Further, flu pandemics generally exclude recurrences of seasonal flu. Throughout history, there have been a number of pandemics of diseases such as smallpox and tuberculosis. One of the most devastating pandemics was the Black Death, which killed an estimated 75–200 million people in the 14th century. The current pandemics are HIV/AIDS and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Other recent pandemics include the 1918 influenza pandemic (Spanish flu) and the 2009 flu pandemic (H1N1).

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