Pandemic | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-06

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic


00:00:53 1 Definition and stages
00:03:26 2 Current pandemics
00:03:36 2.1 HIV and AIDS
00:04:32 3 Pandemics and notable epidemics throughout history
00:12:05 3.1 Cholera
00:15:51 3.2 Influenza
00:18:56 3.3 Typhus
00:21:18 3.4 Smallpox
00:22:15 3.5 Measles
00:23:28 3.6 Tuberculosis
00:24:28 3.7 Leprosy
00:25:15 3.8 Malaria
00:26:39 3.9 Yellow fever
00:27:24 3.10 Ebola virus
00:27:33 3.11 Zika virus
00:27:41 4 Concern about possible future pandemics
00:27:52 4.1 Viral hemorrhagic fevers
00:28:53 4.2 Antibiotic resistance
00:30:53 4.3 SARS
00:31:45 4.4 Influenza
00:32:09 4.4.1 H5N1 (Avian Flu)
00:34:50 4.5 Zika virus
00:35:20 4.6 Economic consequences of pandemic events
00:35:57 5 Biological warfare
00:39:49 6 In popular culture



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A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν pan "all" and δῆμος demos "people") is an epidemic of disease that has spread across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide. This may include communicable and noncommunicable diseases.
A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic. Further, flu pandemics generally exclude recurrences of seasonal flu. Throughout history, there have been a number of pandemics, such as smallpox and tuberculosis. One of the most devastating pandemics was the Black Death, which killed over 75 million people in 1350. The most recent pandemics include the HIV pandemic as well as the 1918  and 2009 H1N1 pandemics.