• Question: What’s the difference between pandemic epidemic?

    Asked by anon-256844 on 12 Jun 2020. This question was also asked by anon-256951.
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      James Beswick answered on 12 Jun 2020:

      Good question – it is very easy to confuse the two. A pandemic is a disease that is spread over multiple countries or continents (like the COVID-19 pandemic). An epidemic is limited to a particular region or population (like the Western African Ebola virus epidemic a few years ago).

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