REVIEW ON PANDEMICS AND EPIDEMICS IN INDIA
Sarika Jayant Patil* and Nirmale D. M.
ABSTRACT
Pandemic is the form of epidemic that spreads through human population affects maximum number of people, Patients. Since last few 100 years most part of a nation, entire nation, a continent or a part of the entire world or particular country or state. A pandemic is an epidemic occurring on a scale which crosses international boundaries, usually affecting a large number of people. In a simple way a pandemic is an epidemic with higher magnitude in terms of geographical area, number of cases and days of suffering resulting in disabilities or deaths. In current review article talks about such outbreaks known to have occurred in the 19th-21st century and are arranged in accordance to chronological orders. In this review it Help the medical practitioners and healthcare workers to understand which type of pandemic conditions faced by country has been through in the past and what changes or methods were employed have to be made by them community and the government preventing such outbreaks in the upcoming future. A disease or condition is not a pandemic merely because it is widespread or kills many people; it must also be infectious. Human population have suffered from many pandemics throughout history be it the earlier form of smallpox or tuberculosis or the recent incidence of HIV/AIDS or H1N1. In this paper an attempt has been made to explore historically some calendar of events of some selected pandemics around the globe.
Keywords: HIV/AIDS or H1N1.
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