2006-08-06 14:46:49 · 6 answers · asked by ValGal 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
An epidemic is a disease that has infected a great many people. A plague could be a disease (like the Black Death in Europe in 1349), or it could be a bothersome natural pestilence (a plague of locusts), or even a host of worries.
2006-08-06 14:53:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are pretty similair, except an epidemic turns into an endemic when people have figured out how to control what is going around such as AIDS...a plague just wipes out people and it's by something random, but it hardly every comes back, or stays with people..thats the difference!
2006-08-06 14:51:56 · answer #2 · answered by kel37 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not much.
An Epidemic is generally harder to spread around, but can be more widespread.
A plague is easier to catch, and causes more infections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic
Epi- upon demic- people
Epidemic is subjective, based on whats expected.
A plague is more like a pandemic- a wide spread problem...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic
The bird flu, for example, is only one criteria away from becoming a plague/ pandemic, and could wipe out much of the human life on Earth as we know it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_flu
2006-08-06 14:50:21 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ Krista ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
epidemic is affecting many persons at one time. the plague is deadly and to annoy. epidemics can occur and not kill. a plague will always kill.
2006-08-06 14:55:44 · answer #4 · answered by hollywood71@verizon.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
plague is the disease itself
epidemic means that whatever it is is spreading fast(everybody's got it)
2006-08-06 14:52:29 · answer #5 · answered by firechap20 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im sorry i still didnt get what it really means ??
2016-10-17 03:55:43 · answer #6 · answered by Muhammad 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋