What is the difference between endemic, pandemic, and epidemic?
1. Endemic, in a broad sense, can mean “belonging” or “native to”, “characteristic of”, or “prevalent in” a particular geography, group, field, area, or environment; native to an area or scope. 2. An epidemic occurs when new cases of a certain disease, in a given human population, and during a given period, substantially exceed what is “expected,” based on recent experience. 3. A pandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region; for instance a continent, or even worldwide.
