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pandemic
(of a disease) affecting persons over a wide geographical area; extensively epidemic
pandemic [pan′dem·ik]
(medicine)
Epidemic occurring over a widespread geographic area.
Pandemic 

an epidemic marked by the spread of an infectious disease over an entire country, to neighboring countries, and sometimes to many other countries as well. Among diseases that may be pandemic are cholera and influenza.
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Three influenza pandemics occurred in the 20th century, (3) and historical records suggest that 3-4 pandemics per century occurred during recent centuries.
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During the 1957 and 1968 pandemics, vaccines arrived too late to be used as an effective mitigation tool during the more severe phases of the pandemics," the agency noted.
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