pandemic

形容词（疾病）大流行的; 普遍的，全世界的

名词（全国或全球性）流行病，大流行病

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1. （疾病的）大流行，广泛传播
    A pandemic is an occurrence of a disease that affects many people over a very wide area.

    e.g. They feared a new cholera pandemic...
           他们担心新一轮的霍乱大流行。
    e.g. One pandemic of Spanish flu took nearly 22 million lives worldwide.
           西班牙流感的大爆发夺去了全球近2,200万人的生命。

1. pandemic的近义词

1. It also eliminated the House's call for money to combat a potential flu pandemic.

2. In the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere, transmission of the pandemic influenza virus remains active and geographically widespread.

3. It is making steady mutations that scientists say could allow it to spread easily from person to person and cause a catastrophic global pandemic.

4. The avian influenza virus is unlikely to cause a pandemic among humans, it has been claimed.

5. Health experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that's highly contagious among humans, potentially sparking a global pandemic.

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6. MOH urged all localities to draft their own contingency plans in accordance with the local conditions and make good preparations for a possible flu pandemic.

7. Nunez urged the governments of the region to redouble efforts to control this pandemic, by improving the prevention campaigns to stop new infections.

8. LONDON - The government unveiled plans Thursday to provide vaccinations for the entire population in the advent of a flu pandemic.

9. When the AIDS pandemic hit Africa, many experts worried that the continent's weak health systems would crumble under the stress.

10. The lower rungs of society have always been gripped by the pandemic of despair because of the poverty and hardship they have to endure.

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