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Contagion vs Pandemic - What's the difference?

contagion | pandemic |

As nouns the difference between contagion and pandemic

is that contagion is a disease spread by contact while pandemic is a pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.

As an adjective pandemic is

widespread; general.

contagion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A disease spread by contact
  • The spread or transmission of such a disease
  • The spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease
  • (finance) A situation in which small shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, spread to the rest of financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.
  • * 2011 , , Project Syndicate, Germany Must Defend the Euro :
  • And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.
  • (finance) A resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner.
  • Derived terms

    * anticontagion * contagionism * contagionist

    See also

    * quarantine * (Contagious disease) ----

    pandemic

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Widespread; general.
  • (medicine) Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
  • World War I might have continued indefinitely if not for a pandemic outbreak of influenza.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
  • , author=Katie L. Burke , title=Ecological Dependency , volume=101, issue=1, page=64 , magazine= citation , passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic , what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * epizootic * enzootic * plague * Black Death English words prefixed with pan-