PANDEMIC

Pandemic

A pandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that has spread through human populations across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even 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, such as smallpox and tuberculosis. More recent pandemics include the HIV pandemic as well as the 1918 and 2009 H1N1 pandemics.

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pandemic

Noun

  1. A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.

Adjective

  1. Widespread; general.
  2. Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
    World War I might have continued indefinitely if not for a pandemic outbreak of influenza.


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