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site ror tracking dowcuoe 13. What are the characteristic s that distinguish pandemic disease from epidemic disease? Name some examples of notorious pandemics that occurred in history. Why did the "Spanish Flu" of 1918 qualify as a pan- demic? In giving your answer, be sure to distinguish among the terms epidemic, pandemic, and endemic.

Answer 1

Endemic disease : Endemic disease is a disease that remains constantly or permanent prevalent in a particular geographical area over a period of time. For eg: malaria is a endemic disease in India.

Epidemic disease : When a disease have sudden outbreak affecting a large population spreading over a geographical area at specific time it is called a epidemic disease. Eg : Ebola virus

Pandemic : when a disease spreads over one nation to other other affecting millions of people it is called pandemic. According to WHO, a disease is called pandemic if it spreads globally from one nation yo another.

Towards the end of World war l in 1918, Spanish Flu broke out in U.S. military camp in Kansas. It very quickly spread to other parts of the world killing approximately 20 to 100 million people. It is believed to have affected over 500 million people globally. Seeing such a widespread out break of the disease involving many nations and millions of people it is called pandemic.