Saturday, May 2, 2009
What's the difference
What's a pandemic verses an epidemic? Easy maybe for those of you who remember your prefixes. Pan relating to "world" and epi relating to "cover"...but what does that mean regarding these two words? All important now that the swine flu, according to the media, is called a pandemic and is going to kill us all. Apparently an epidemic is relating to a specific region whereas a pandemic is worldwide. So, in my book, that means people should stop calling AIDS an epidemic. Right?
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That is what I have heard before. Pandemic is world-wide and epidemic is relating to a smaller area/region/place.
I just saw that you had this blog through facebook and thought I would take a look.
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