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It's probably important for people to first understand what a pandemic is. So if one goes to the World Health Organization a pandemic is defined by meeting three criteria: We have emergence of a disease that is new to a population; the agent infects humans and results in serious illness; and that agent is then easily spread amongst populations.
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