what is the difference between a epidemic and a pandemic?
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The pandemic adds panic from the people in the affected area.
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An epidemic is a disease which is widespread, in a locality or region.\n\nA pandemic is much broader, it affects entire countries, or the world.
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YES...if the bird was sick before being cooked. And, YES, through eggs if the bird was sick or if not cooked thoroughly. This bird flu is really getting serious now...the question is not "if" it will turn into a pandemic, but "when". And, people are still being careless about live chickens here in China...the wet markets are still butchering chickens, with their blood spurting out all over the floor and possibly into vegetables, etc. I don't know what it will take before everyone realizes how grave this problem is becoming. Unfortunately, it may take the sacrifice of human lives condensed into an area before peoples' lives elsewhere will be saved. The gene is just figuring out how to mutate from human to human - and that's all it will take.
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Epidemiology: The scientific study of epidemics and epidemic diseases, especially the factors that influence the incidence, distribution, and control of infectious diseases; the study of disease occurrence in human populations.
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A cold is an infectious disease...
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Pneumonia is a bacterial infection of the lungs, and there are many strains and bacterias responsible for the infection.\n\nSome bugs are more infectious than others, and some are able to hop from one body to the other through the air.  Those are the worst so far as being contagious.
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Its actually the same. Pan in Latin means all.  Pandemic may be attributed for larger areas, usually crossing internation boundaries.  So a larger epidemic becomes a pandemic.\n\n"Pandemic - an epidemic occurring over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people. A global epidemic."\n\n"Epidemic - any unusual occurrence of disease, generally first noticed by an unexpected number of cases occurring over a particular amount of time or in a particular place. An outbreak of disease or injury in a defined geographic area over a specific amount of time."
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An epidemic is generally a widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population. An epidemic may be restricted to one locale or may even be global (pandemic). An outbreak of a disease is defined as being epidemic, however, not by how many members or what proportion of the population it infects but by how fast it is growing. ...
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Maybe you should do some research on "Pandemics" first.  Do some research on the Spanish Flu, as well as more recent ones like AIDS and Ebola.\n\nEither it would be a "fast killer" like Ebola, where people died quickly and it never spread.  Or it would be a "slow killer", where it would be impossible to contain because people would pass it along before terminal symptoms were obvious.  Closing the border with Mexico would be pointless, because it would simply pass on to Europe or Asia, and come right back.  Look at the recent outbreak of SARS to see what I mean.\n\nAnd what would the Navy, Air Force, and Special Forces be doing?  Shooting down airliners with infected people?  Sinking any ships that left port in Mexico?  And Mexico is a long ways from South America.  US closing the US border from Mexico would be like France closing the border with Belguim because of a disease in Hungary.\n\nAnd as a member of the US Armed Forces, there is no way that a "shoot on sight" order would be given, let alone followed.  We are not mindless robots, and such an order would be illegal, and would never be followed.  Period.
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thats not true- if u study the virus, you will relaise its not easy to cre it because of its mode of spread, and mode of infection- but theres somethign called malthucian theory- when the population grows to very large numbers, nature finds its own way of controlling it by means of natural disasters and diseases.
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I saw a show on oprah, where a representative from the CDC was a guest and they were talking about the bird flu. They say that eventually it will become a pandemic. this is if the virus starts to mutate to be able to spread from human to human efficiently. it may not spread quickly, and it might not even get to that point, we hope. but there is a high chance that it could happen. cases are starting to turn up in europe, its' slowly making it wasy across the continents. it will definately hit america, it may not infect many humans, but it will infect birds.
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Viruses mutate.  What is a harmless virus today could change a gene-pair on its DNA and be a real killer tomorrow...  Same reason some diseases go away - like the flu pandemic that killed millions in 1918 or so - we haven't seen it since.\n\nThis is what is scary about the bird flu - right now humans only get it from direct contact with infected birds - that would mena that since most of us do not raise our own fowl anymore most of us were safe, right?  Wrong... If a person has it, and it mutates in that person's body to allow person-to-person transmission, the human population is at risk from other humans... and if it is spread easily, it could be huge.
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As stated before, pestilence is not a disease itself.\n The definition:\npes·ti·lence (pst-lns)\nn.\n\n   1. A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.\n   2. An epidemic of such a disease.\n\n\nSo, you would consider an entire town having the plague a Pestilence of plague.\n\nSo there are no symptoms of pestilence.  Teh causes would be any easily transmitted disease that can spread through a population rapidly causing infirment and disability, and ultimately death.
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Mainly they try to prevent diseases being spread through education, and vaccination.\n\nFor more information on a specific disease you can visit the Center For Disease Control's website - http://www.cdc.gov/
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There is no difference, dear, both mean the same thing.  It's a disease in your genetic code, which you inherited.
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an emerging disease is a newly identified disease or one that has occurred previously but only in very small numbers.  examples are AIDS, lassa fever, gastric ulcers, cholera, pandemic influenza, legionnaire's disease, lyme borreliosis and Ebola.  Reemerging diseases are ones that used to be major health problems but then had a rapid decrease but are now coming back such as diptheria, malaria, rabies, measles (rubeola), tuberculosis, yellow fever, necrotizing fascitis, toxic shock syndrome, schistosomiasis etc.
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They both spread rapidly?