Pandemics

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  • pandemics
definition
  • epidemic so widely spread that vast numbers of people in different countries are affected
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broader
Abstract from DBPedia
    A pandemic (from Greek παν- pan- meaning "all", or "every" and δῆμος demos "people") is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals. A widespread endemic disease with a stable number of infected individuals is not a pandemic. Widespread endemic diseases with a stable number of infected individuals such as recurrences of seasonal influenza are generally excluded as they occur simultaneously in large regions of the globe rather than being spread worldwide. Throughout human history, there have been a number of pandemics of diseases such as smallpox. The most fatal pandemic in recorded history was the Black Death—also known as The Plague—which killed an estimated 75–200 million people in the 14th century. The term had not been used then but was used for later epidemics, including the 1918 influenza pandemic—more commonly known as the Spanish flu. Current pandemics include HIV/AIDS and COVID-19.

    パンデミック(英: pandemic)とは、「感染症が世界的な規模で流行すること」、「感染症の全国的・世界的な大流行」、「広い地域に高い罹病率で感染症が発生し、大流行すること」を意味するほか、「一国の全体、あるいは世界に、ある疾患が広がること」を意味する。 人類の歴史を通じて、天然痘や結核、ペスト、インフルエンザ、新型コロナウイルス感染症などのパンデミックが数多く発生している。最も致命率の高いパンデミックは、黒死病として知られる14世紀のペストのパンデミックであり、75-2000万人以上が死亡したと言われている。 語源は、ギリシア語のpandēmos (pan-「全ての」+ dēmos「人々」)である。pandēmosの後ろに、17世紀ころに英語で接尾辞の「ic」をつけてpandemicという語が造語された。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pandemic)