Sporadic vs Pandemic - What's the difference?
sporadic | pandemic |
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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As adjectives the difference between sporadic and pandemic
is that sporadic is rare and scattered in occurrence while pandemic is widespread; general.As a noun pandemic is
a pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.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.”}}