All pandemic are epidemics but all epidemics are not pandemic. Elaborate the statement that hit Kerala in recent time
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The first intimation that the influenza outbreak in South-East Asian
countries such as Japan and Malaya was about to spread to India was
received at the Government of India Influenza Centre at Coonoor on 11 May
1957. It was decided to keep a special watch on the arrival of infected
cases at Calcutta and Madras and to isolate the virus from such cases.
Information was received on 15 May that the s.s. Rajula, which had left
Singapore on 9 May with 1622 passengers and about 200 crew members,
had been directed to proceed to Madras instead of to its first port of call
in India, Negapatam, in view of an outbreak of influenza on board affecting
254 persons in seven days. On the ship's arrival at Madras on the morning
of 16 May it was found that there were 44 active cases of influenza on
board, four of them showing temperatures above 103°F (39.4°C). The
steamer was placed in quarantine at sea and was boarded by a medical.