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What is influenza considered and pandemic instead of epidemic​

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A flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new flu A virus in people that is very different from current and recently circulating seasonal flu A viruses. Epidemics of seasonal flu happen every year. Fall and winter is the time for flu in the United States. Flu pandemics happen rarely.

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