Question

An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the world population. In contrast to the regular seasonal epidemics of influenza, these pandemics occur irregularly.
What is the meaning of this sentence?
is the virus an epidemic or a pandemic?

Answer 1

Explanation:

it's been said that it's a pandemic caused by a virus which in normal scenarios is an epidemic, it actually means that normally influenza is localised to some areas but sometimes on an irregular basis it spreads globally unchecked and that causes it to become a pandemic.

Answer 2

This sentence means that an influenza virus is enough to spread and infect a large population of the world. For example, the Covid19 epidemic. The virus is an epidemic.

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