{"id":39001,"date":"2020-03-13T21:33:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39001"},"modified":"2020-03-13T21:33:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:33:48","slug":"biology-endemic-vs-epidemic-vs-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-endemic-vs-epidemic-vs-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology: endemic vs epidemic vs pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about words that describe disease patterns: the tutor mentions three.<\/h2>\n<p>\n<em>Endemic<\/em> can be a noun or adjective. As a noun, it means a disease that is always present in one area, but confined there as well. African sleeping sickness, carried by the tsetse fly, is an example.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Epidemic:<\/em> a disease, suddenly noticed, that starts spreading in a contained region.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Pandemic:<\/em> a disease that spreads without geographical confinement, manifesting anywhere in the world.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/parasites\/sleepingsickness\/index.html\">cdc.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldct.org\/Schools\/MMS\/staff\/hand\/immnotes.htm\">mansfieldt.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. <em>Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about words that describe disease patterns: the tutor mentions three. Endemic can be a noun or adjective. As a noun, it means a disease that is always present in one area, but confined there as well. African sleeping sickness, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-endemic-vs-epidemic-vs-pandemic\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology: endemic vs epidemic vs pandemic<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39005,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39001\/revisions\/39005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}