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Epidemic vs Pandemic - Coggle Diagram
Epidemic vs Pandemic
How do they end?
fewer hosts
seasonal
fewer carriers
How diseases spread
through food and water
typhoid fever
insects
malaria
airborne transmission
flu
Epidemic
When a large number of people in a region become infected with a disease
Causes of an Epidemic
increased virulence of the disease
introduction of a new disease
lower resistance to a disease
infected food and water
natural disasters in wars
Pandemic
An Epidemic that has become globally spread
six stages of a pandemic
there are small clusters of the disease found, but it is not spreading rapidly
the virus is being passed from human-to-human and there are community outbreaks of the disease
eventually spead in humans
the virus has spread to at least two countries, and a full-fledged pandemic is imminent
virus is found in animals but not in humans
the disease is now classified as a full-fledged pandemic