Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 20, Problem 14SQ
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Introduction: A rapid spread of infectious diseases that affect a large number of people throughout the world is called as the pandemic. Only infectious or contagious disease spread is termed as pandemic. Disease outbreak happens when the disease spreads more than the expected numbers of people among a region or a community or in number of countries or otherwise worldwide.

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