Pandemic or Epidemic?

It can easily infect people and make them sick

• epidemic

• pandemic

a number of people are sick

• pandemic

• epidemic

It starts in Africa and Spreads to Asia and Europe

• Pandemic

• Epidemic

A new disease is introduced to a population

• epidemic

• pandemic

This occurred when Europeans brought smallpox to the Americans in North America killing as much as 90% of the native population

• pandemic

• epidemic

Insect borne disease by insects killing 250 people in 8 separate communities

• epidemic

• pandemic

Famine and poor nutrition can cause a population to have lower resistance to a disease.

• pandemic

• epidemic

 Infection can also travel through the air, usually when a person coughs or sneezes.

• pandemic

• epidemic

 Infection can also travel through the air, usually when a person coughs or sneezes, traveling from one community to another until the entire region of that state is infecte

• pandemic

• epidemic

It spreads to 2 or more countries

• pandemic

• epidemic