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What is a pandemic disease ?

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Pandemic diseases are when the diseaseis widely distributed worldwide.

Outbreak of an infectious disease that occurs over a wide geographical area and that is of high prevalence, generally affecting a significant proportion of the world’s population.

Example – AIDS.

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