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i know this question has been discussed before, but those explanations do not seem to answer it satisfyingly....

2 comments:

garfield said...

The difference is indicated by the prefixes. "epi" means "outside." "Pan" means "universal." "Pan" is a bit of an overstatement (as it usually is - e.g. panorama takes in a lot but by no means everything), however, a pandemic it is far more more widespread than an epidemic.
Edit - Your detail poses a more difficult question than the first. The Spanish Flu, which killed thousands in Europe and America after WW1 was certainly a pandemic. Bird Flu has also been found in many places, but not in anything like the severity of Spanish Flu. What counts most? Diversity or intensity? I don't know.

picador said...

A pandemic can be bigger than an epidemic. And epidemic can be just local area. A apndemic is usually across countrys borders.

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