The phrase "global pandemic" refers to a worldwide outbreak of a contagious disease that affects a large number of people across different countries and continents. Full definition
Still, emerging diseases usually don't become global pandemics, and climate change is only one factor in an extremely complicated, extremely mobile 21st - century disease landscape. (psmag.com)
Directed by Stefan Ruzowitsky (Deadfall), Patient Zero sees «an unprecedented global pandemic of a super strain of rabies resulting in the -LSB-...] (flickeringmyth.com)
One has only to look back a few years to the 2003 scare over SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), which ended up causing about 774 deaths worldwide, for a recent measure of the potential for global pandemic panic. (scientificamerican.com)