Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nAn epidemic refers to an uptick in the spread of a disease\nwithin a specific community. By contrast, the WHO defines a pandemic as global\nspread of a new disease, though the specific threshold for meeting that\ncriteria is fuzzy. The term is most often applied to new influenza strains, and\nthe CDC says it\u2019s used when viruses \u201care able to infect people easily and\nspread from person to person in an efficient and sustained way\u201d in multiple\nregions. The declaration refers to the spread of a disease, rather than the\nseverity of the illness it causes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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