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pandemic planning  

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  • A pandemic is a large international epidemic of an infectious disease. The status of an outbreak as a pandemic depends more on its geographical extent and the number of people infected than it does on the lethality of the pathogen. [Source: Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief; Pandemic Planning]

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