Whats the difference between a 'pandemic' and an 'epidemic' and are there other '...demics'?

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Whats the difference between a 'pandemic' and an 'epidemic' and are there other '...demics'?

Answer 1

pandemic is a disease that's spread worldwide...epidemic is a disease that's limited to one country, or a smaller space...like a state or a county.

Answer 2

An epidemic is localized geographically. A pandemic covers the population of a very large geographical area or a bunch of epidemics in many diffent parts of the world (like mad cow disease and bird flu). Pandemics start out as epidemics. Don't know of any other demics, besides academics!!! The root words are french. Epi = in, Pan = all, demos= people.

Answer 3

pandemic is world wide outbreak where epidemic is localized. like the flu is usually an epidemic and HIV/AIDS is pandemic. Here's some definitions



Endemic: a disease that exists permanently in a particular region or population. Malaria is a constant worry in parts of Africa



Epidemic: An outbreak of disease that attacks many peoples at about the same time and may spread through one or several communities.

Pandemic: When an epidemic spreads throughout the world

Answer 4

A pandemic is like an epidemic, but more so. If a disease spreads through a city or state (or a region of that size) we may term it an epidemic. If it spreads through entire countries around the world, then we call it a pandemic.

Answer 5

A pandemic involves far higher number of people affected than an epidemic!

Answer 6

Endemic: Occurring usually in a place.

Epidemic: When the number of cases is more than 2 standard deviations above the average number of cases.

Pandemic: Epidemic occurring in several countries at the same time.

Answer 7

Pandemic is contained in one country (eg Uk)

epidemic is widely spread across more than one country (eg in uk, france, and spain)



it might be the other way round...

wikipedia it?

Answer 8

This is the sort of question that makes me sad that sites like this exist.



It's like dictionaries were wiped off the face of the earth or something.



:-(

Answer 9

French???? there's endemic