S3 Epidemics and Pandemics in History Source Based Activities w/Answers

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According to the World Health Organization or WHO, an epidemic disease could be defined as one “affecting many persons at the same time, and spread from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent”, while a pandemic is “a worldwide spread of a new disease”. Due to the term ‘demic’, which comes from the Greek word ‘demos’, meaning ‘people of a district’, the words are used interchangeably.