COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE RAGING DISEASE
Formerly Published in Vol. 5 No. Jan. - Jun., 2020
Abstract
A pandemic is an epidemic occurring on a scale that crosses international boundaries, usually affecting people on a worldwide 1scale. A disease or condition is not a pandemic merely because it is widespread or kills many people; it must also be infectious. For instance, cancer is responsible for many deaths but is not considered a pandemic because the disease is neither infectious nor contagious.In a virtual press conference in May 2009 on the in uenza pandemic, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General ad interim for Health Security and Environment, WHO said "An easy way to think about pandemic ... is to say: a pandemic is a global outbreak. Then you might ask yourself: 'What is a global outbreak?' Global outbreak means that we see both spread of the agent and then we see disease activities in addition to the spread of the virus.
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