global spread
International diffusion pattern
Global spread describes the expansion of something across countries and continents—diseases, ideas, technologies, or cultural phenomena moving worldwide.
The term appears frequently in epidemiology: The global spread of COVID-19 overwhelmed health systems.
It also applies to commerce, information, and influence: the global spread of fast food chains, the global spread of misinformation on social media.
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- patient zeroFirst documented infection
- contagionDisease spread by contact
- viralSpreading quickly online
- going viralSpreading rapidly online
outbreak · worldwide · world tour · diffusion · transmission · wildfire · chain reaction · epidemic · borderless · far and wide · infectious · herd immunity · network · interconnected · diaspora · migration · ripple · proliferation
- Fluflu, flu shot, flu vaccine, flu season, flu symptoms
- chess historychaturanga, checkmate, castling, knight move, vizier
- Buddhist Revivalreform movements, missionary activity, anti-colonial movements, social reform
global spreadcontainment
Preventing hostile expansion
suppression · eradication · contraction · quarantine · isolation
global, spread, globe, globes, globular, globally, globalism, globalist, globalization