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What is the difference between pandemic and epidemic

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pandemic is a disease that has spread to a entire state ,country even worldwide. Example coronavirus.epidemic is a disease that is in a place at a certain time.Example black death.

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pandemic is used to describe a disease that affects the whole country or the entire world. while epidemic is used to describe any problem that was grown out of control.

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