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draig	Friday, 1. May 2009, 23:07
Posts: 117 Group: Members Member #224 Joined: March 23, 2009	OSB is correct, you can technically get a pandemic which is not life threatening - pandemic just means many (all) people. For normal medical usage of the term pandemic three conditions have to be met: 1 A new organism subtype (or a new organism) is encountered 2 The new organism infects humans causing serious illness; 3 The new organism spreads easily and sustainably among humans Your question is thus can you have an infection causing serious illness which is not life threatening? I would say yes - if we suddenly encountered a new virus that caused painful ulceration of human eyes and was highly contagious then that wouldn't be life threatening, but it could be called a pandemic.


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