Feb 1, 2020
In the realm of infectious diseases, a pandemic is the worst case scenario. When an epidemic spreads beyond a country’s borders, that is when the disease officially becomes a pandemic.
Communicable diseases have been around since before modern humans even appeared on the global stage. These diseases existed during humankind’s hunter-gatherer days, but the shift to agrarian life 10,000 years ago created communities that made epidemics more possible, and even more deadly.
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