Bundle: Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life, Loose-leaf Version, 14th + LMS Integrated for MindTap Biology, 2 terms (12 months) Printed Access Card
Bundle: Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life, Loose-leaf Version, 14th + LMS Integrated for MindTap Biology, 2 terms (12 months) Printed Access Card
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ISBN: 9781305775480
Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Introduction: A rapid spread of infectious diseases that affect a large number of people throughout the world is called as the pandemic. Only infectious or contagious disease spread is termed as pandemic. Disease outbreak happens when the disease spreads more than the expected numbers of people among a region or a community or in number of countries or otherwise worldwide.

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