The World Health Organization said a while ago that the Corona virus can be classified as a pandemic, warning of an outbreak of the disease, and in this context we present during the next report, according to the site ” theconvention “The difference between an outbreak of disease, a pandemic, and a pandemic, and what each means …
Corona declared a pandemic –
The difference between a pandemic and a pandemic and disease outbreaks
Outbreak disease outbreak
An outbreak is a sudden rise in the number of disease cases, and an outbreak may occur in a community or geographical region, or it may affect many countries, and lasts for a few days or weeks, or even for several years, such as influenza.
Sometimes, a single case of infectious disease can be considered an outbreak, if the disease is rare (such as food-borne food poisoning) or has serious public health effects (for example, a bioterrorism factor such as anthrax).
Epidemic epidemic
The epidemic is an outbreak on a larger geographical area. In the case of the Corona virus, people outside of Wuhan have started to carry out positive infection tests, which means that the incidence COVID-19 All over China means it has developed into a pandemic.
The WHO announced that Corona could be pandemic–
Pandemic pandemic
A pandemic is a term widely used to describe any problem that has gone out of control, and is defined as a disease outbreak that occurs in a wide geographical area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population:
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More people are affected by the epidemic.
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It is often caused by a new virus or strain of the virus that has not been circulated between people for a long time.
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Humans have little or no immunity against it.
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The virus is spreading quickly from person to person all over the world.
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It causes many more deaths from epidemics.
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It often creates social turmoil, economic loss, and general hardship.
Examples of a pandemic: the Spanish flu pandemic 1918-1919 that killed between 20 and 40 million people, and was one of the most devastating epidemics in the history of the recorded world, and is a flu H1N1 2009 is the latest global pandemic.
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