Pandemic vs Outbreak - What's the difference?
pandemic | outbreak |
Widespread; general.
(medicine) Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.
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An eruption, sudden appearance
A sudden increase.
An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.
(uncountable) A geological layer that breaks out
To burst out
To break forth
As nouns the difference between pandemic and outbreak
is that pandemic is a pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population while outbreak is an eruption, sudden appearance.As an adjective pandemic
is widespread; general.As a verb outbreak is
to burst out.pandemic
English
(wikipedia pandemic)Adjective
(en adjective)- World War I might have continued indefinitely if not for a pandemic outbreak of influenza.
Noun
(en noun)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 alsoSee also
* epizootic * enzootic * plague * Black Death English words prefixed with pan-outbreak
English
Noun
(wikipedia outbreak) (en noun)- ''Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic
- There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.
- There has been an outbreak of broken windows in the street.