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An epidemic is a. disease occurring suddenly in humans in a community, region or country in numbers in excess of normal. while a pandemic is the worldwide outbreak of a disease in humans in numbers clearly in excess of. normal. Agents causing outbreaks can be viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi, or toxins.
Outbreaks vs. Epidemics. Whether it's time to freak about the flu. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been careful to characterize the sharp uptick in flu cases as an outbreak, rather than an epidemic. What's the difference between an outbreak and an epidemic, and where do pandemics fit into the nomenclature of disease? In terms of the flu, the difference between an outbreak and an epidemic is the percenatge of overall deaths caused by the disease. Every week, the CDC gathers morbidity data from hospitals in 122 cities nationwide and figures out what percentage of the decedents died of pneumonia, cancer, and other prolific killers.