pandemics
Worldwide disease spread
Pandemics is the plural of pandemic, a disease outbreak that spreads across multiple countries or continents, affecting large populations.
A pandemic differs from an epidemic mainly in geographic scope: The 1918 flu and COVID-19 were pandemics; Ebola outbreaks have been epidemics.
The word also works as an adjective: pandemic influenza, pandemic proportions.
Sudden eruption of trouble
- contagionDisease spread by contact
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- virusMicroscopic infectious agent
- pathogenDisease-causing microorganism
transmission · spread · mortality · morbidity · incubation · symptoms · carriers · vectors
Isolation preventing disease transmission
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
- isolationComplete separation from others
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- contact tracingTracking disease spread connections
vaccination · masks · social distancing · ventilators · PPE · testing · surveillance · travel bans
Study of infectious agents
- immunologyScience of bodily defenses
- R-numberDisease transmissibility measure
- herd immunityWidespread resistance protecting all
- antibodiesProteins targeting pathogens
clinical trials · vaccine development · mRNA · modeling · projections · CDC · WHO · peer review
Medieval bubonic plague pandemic
- bubonic plagueYersinia pestis infection
- choleraBacterial disease causing fatal dehydration
- smallpoxDeadly pustular viral infection
- typhusLouse-transmitted bacterial infection
HIV/AIDS · SARS · MERS · Ebola · polio · yellow fever · swine flu · 1918
Cessation of operations
- recessionProlonged economic decline
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- remote workEmployment from afar
- supply chainProduct delivery infrastructure
hoarding · panic buying · misinformation · inequality · mental health · grief · essential workers · loneliness
outbreak
Sudden eruption of trouble
- contagionDisease spread by contact
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- virusMicroscopic infectious agent
pathogen · transmission · spread · mortality · morbidity · incubation · symptoms · carriers · vectors · zoonotic
quarantine
Isolation preventing disease transmission
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
- isolationComplete separation from others
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
contact tracing · vaccination · masks · social distancing · ventilators · PPE · testing · surveillance · travel bans · curfews
virology
Study of infectious agents
- immunologyScience of bodily defenses
- R-numberDisease transmissibility measure
- herd immunityWidespread resistance protecting all
antibodies · clinical trials · vaccine development · mRNA · modeling · projections · CDC · WHO · peer review · research
Black Death
Medieval bubonic plague pandemic
- bubonic plagueYersinia pestis infection
- choleraBacterial disease causing fatal dehydration
- smallpoxDeadly pustular viral infection
typhus · HIV/AIDS · SARS · MERS · Ebola · polio · yellow fever · swine flu · 1918 · medieval
shutdown
Cessation of operations
- recessionProlonged economic decline
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- remote workEmployment from afar
supply chain · hoarding · panic buying · misinformation · inequality · mental health · grief · essential workers · loneliness · domestic violence
- medical historyHippocrates, germ theory, bloodletting, Galen, four humors
- US Medical Historypolio vaccine, Jonas Salk, Salk vaccine, Clara Barton, Walter Reed
- global healthdisease, World Health Organization, medications, vaccinations, outbreaks
- Health Threatsdisease, virus, outbreak, infectious disease, disease outbreak
- public healthdisease prevention, immunization, disease control, health education, community health
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse
pandemicseradication
Total elimination of something
herd immunity · containment · disease eradication · zero cases · disease control
pandemicspublic health
Community-level disease prevention
health security · global health · normalcy · wellness · thriving
- COVID pandemicWorldwide coronavirus health crisis
- pandemic relief
- pandemic fatigueBurnout from extended outbreak
- pandemic responseActions taken during outbreaks
- global pandemicDisease affecting all countries
- flu pandemicWorldwide outbreak of influenza