Is malaria an epidemic or pandemic? Is leprosy an infectious disease? Are tapeworms ectoparasites? Is smallpox a communicable disease? Is whooping cough an epidemic? Is encephalitis a disease? Is MRSA an infectious disease? Is genital warts a viral infection?
Less worrisome than a pandemic is an epidemic. An epidemic is defined by the CDC as an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in a population. US SHORT ON CORONAVIRUS FACEMASKS, VENTILATORS: HHS SECRETARY "Whether WHO calls it an epidem...
The terms endemic, outbreak, epidemic, and pandemic indicate how common a condition is at a point in time relative to how common it was at an earlier time. The terms endemic, outbreak, epidemic, and pandemic are often used to describe infections, although conditions such as hypertension, ...
A PANDEMIC OF GREED: The real global epidemic is blatant media fear-mongeringWinter, James
"The virus has been already circulating at high levels last year in the rest of South America, and increased travel and movement of infected people, especially coming out of the pandemic, has really contributed to the spread throughout the continents."...
In the event of an outbreak of disease at epidemic or pandemic scale, drug-repurposing is an answer to accelerated (“warp-speed”) discovery of drugs to mitigate the devastating effect of highly communicable disease, such as the Ebola virus outbreak and SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Studies have also...
Pharma has a great opportunity ahead of it when it comes to conducting representative clinical trials. The industry’s application of mRNA techniques during the pandemic led to the fastest vaccine development in history. The processes used are now seeing
The idea was to encourage the development of platform technologies, including vaccines, drug therapies anddiagnostic tests, that could be rapidly adapted and deployed in response to an array of future outbreaks with epidemic or pandemic potential. ...
The World Bank estimated in late 2020 that remittances to family members would drop by 14% in 2020 compared to pre-epidemic levels. It foresaw rising unemployment among migrants, a slowing of new migrations, and an increase in returns of migrants to their home countries.7 ...
中国共产党百科∣抗击新冠肺炎疫情 battle against the COVID-19 epidemic The COVID-19 global pandemic is the most extensive to afflict humanity in a century. A serious crisis for the entire world, and a daunting challenge, it poses a grave threat to human life and health. The Communist Party ...