epidemic vs pandemic
Definitions
noun
- a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
adjective
- (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously
Examples
It is a rich and absorbing story about the 1918 epidemic of Spanish influenza.
In summary, Dr. Green, after studying and researching this question for over 20 years, it is my firm conviction that aspartame lowers seizure threshold, mimics or exacerbates a wide variety of neuropsychiatric disorders, contributes to the incidence of certain cancers, and because of it's impact on the hypothalamic "appestat" plays a significant role in the world-wide epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Ministers have spent nearly 500million stockpiling the antiviral drug in case of a deadly epidemic but there are doubts it is effective.
Definitions
noun
- an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world
adjective
- existing everywhere
- epidemic over a wide geographical area
Examples
In countries afflicted by epidemics and pandemics like malaria and tuberculosis, growth and development will be threatened until these scourges can be contained.
To develop the tools of social transformation she convened an activist community of pastors, preachers, biblical exegetes, theologians and theology students, laymen and laywomen to develop tools to guide the Christian churches in an engagement with the pandemic.
It is possible that one or both of these pandemics were due to smallpox, or even measles.
