An outbreak, which is a sudden, localized incidence of disease, can become an epidemic if it spreads over a larger area, infecting more people. If the spread escalates further, an epidemic could become a pandemic, affecting an even larger geographic area, with people in multiple countries and sometimes on multiple continents infected. .
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On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially changed the name of COVID-19, the disease caused by a new corona virus, from an epidemic to a pandemic. One important question: What exactly does each of those names mean?
‘Pandemic’ vs ‘Pandemic’
An epidemic is an outbreak of disease—that is, a sudden, localized incidence of disease—that spreads rapidly and affects many people at once. A pandemic is an epidemic of greater scope and coverage. A pandemic occurs over a large geographical area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population.
And ‘Especially’
If a disease persists for a long time as an epidemic or pandemic, it can eventually become an epidemic of an area, which means that it persists at a consistent level within an area. area.
Origin and Usage of ‘Pandemic’, ‘Pandemic’ and ‘Endemic’
DiseasePossibly derived from Greek epidmios (“domestic, among the people, widespread (of a disease)”), can have a broader meaning, such as “too common”, “contagious” or “characterized by the development or extent of spread”; it is often used in a non-medical sense. Pandemic It is less common in its broad and non-medical sense, but it has additional meanings, including “affecting the majority of the population in a country or several countries”, “found in most parts of the world”. world and in different ecological conditions,” and “of or relating to ordinary or sensual love” (in this last sense, the word is usually capitalized). Pandemic come from greek pandēmos“of all people, public, common, (disease) pervasive,” is itself the word pan- (“all, all”) and dimos (“everybody”). In addition to public health uses, endemic It is also used by biologists to describe plant and animal species found only in a certain area. The Because- belong to endemic means “in, inside.”
use history
Disease, pandemicAnd endemic all were entered into English as adjectives in the 17th century.
Plague, is a common and widespread disease that occurs in certain regions, or countries, at a given time, caused by certain people by the air or water of the same area. , producing all kinds of people, one and the same disease.— Thomas Lodge, A treatise on the plague1603
These Praises are certainly not convertible to the Diseases mentioned above, and therefore should not be hastily pronounced Scorvey; moreover Endemick, the others Epidemick and Pandemick.— Gideon Harvey, London disease1675
Disease used the noun later in the 17th century; pandemic did not undergo this change of function until day 19. endemic has been used as a noun only since the early 20th century; As a noun, it refers to an organism that is restricted or special to a locality or region.
CHAP. X. Regarding plague and malignant fever, along with smallpox, and other infectious diseases.— Anon., fire disease1674
Diseases that share very similar characteristics and strike many people across a wide area of the country at the same time, are often called Disease. If all, or nearly all, residents of a country are similarly attacked, at or near the same time, with a particular claim, it is more properly called pandemic.— JA Allen, Boston Journal of Medicine and SurgerySeptember 5, 1832
Why is the proportion of endemic species still less on the islands around New Zealand than on New Zealand itself…? —John Christopher Willis, Age and Region: A Study of the Geographical Distribution and Origin of Species1922
On Novel Coronavirus
Some organizations and scientists have recommended calling COVID-19 a pandemic weeks before the World Health Organization decided to do so. However, it is worth noting that there is no clear boundary to distinguish a Disease from one pandemic. The latter, from a public health perspective, is worse than the former, but there is enough overlap between the two that at certain points it is difficult to reach a consensus. The Coronavirus of course, spread globally and with such severity that we quickly passed the point of semantic ambiguity; disease has occurred pandemic ratio.
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