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Pandemics

"Pandemics" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Epidemics of infectious disease that have spread to many countries, often more than one continent, and usually affecting a large number of people.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pandemics" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pandemics" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 567 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 241 publications in 2020
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