It really is learning a new language. What's the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic? An epidemic is a disease that affects a large number of people within a community, population ...

The World Health Organisation has not called the spread of the new coronavirus a pandemic yet, but it has declared that it is an epidemic, and a global health emergency. An example of an epidemic ...

Public health strategies, from vaccination to improving sanitary conditions, may have different impacts depending on whether ...

As the coronavirus continues to dominate headlines and conversations around the world, many people are wondering how exactly we should define the outbreak: epidemic or pandemic? Last week ...

how the disease favored poor working people: “It was in the tiny mining villages—‘patches’—that the epidemic was felt immediately.” William Maxwell drew on his mother’s death ...

No longer considered a medical or political emergency, it has transitioned from a pandemic to an endemic disease—a ... Why, for example, did advice on mask-wearing change so often and vary ...

A report highlighted a particular resurgence of endemic ... epidemic infectious diseases in England over recent years,” Pebody said. “The reductions in transmission related to the COVID-19 ...