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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nicjosh83" data-source="post: 26717395" data-attributes="member: 569114">A pandemic (from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" target="_blank">Greek</a> πᾶν, pan, "all" and δῆμος, demos, "local people" the 'crowd') is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic" target="_blank">epidemic</a> of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_disease" target="_blank">infectious disease</a> that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continents" target="_blank">continents</a> or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of people. A widespread <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_(epidemiology)" target="_blank">endemic</a> disease with a stable number of infected people is not a pandemic. Widespread endemic diseases with a stable number of infected people such as recurrences of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_influenza" target="_blank">seasonal influenza</a> are generally excluded as they occur simultaneously in large regions of the globe rather than being spread worldwide.Throughout <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_history" target="_blank">human history</a>, there have been a number of pandemics of diseases such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox" target="_blank">smallpox</a>. The most fatal pandemic in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history" target="_blank">recorded history</a> was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death" target="_blank">Black Death</a> (also known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)" target="_blank">The Plague</a>), which killed an estimated 75–200 million people in the 14th century.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGould1966617-2" target="_blank">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic#cite_note-ABC/Reuters-3" target="_blank">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic#cite_note-Black_Death%27s_Gene_Code_Cracked-4" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic#cite_note-Health:_De-coding_the_Black_Death-5" target="_blank">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAberth2010-6" target="_blank">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDeleoHinnebusch2005927%E2%80%93928-7" target="_blank">[7]</a> The term was not used yet but was for later pandemics including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_influenza_pandemic" target="_blank">1918 influenza pandemic</a> (Spanish flu).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic#cite_note-8" target="_blank">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic#cite_note-9" target="_blank">[9]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic#cite_note-WHO99-10" target="_blank">[10]</a>Link - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic</a></blockquote>

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