My concern was limiting thinking to the idea that bad things are only likely to come from China. Think of the millions of American Indians killed by Spanish and the illnesses of other Europeans. And in return, probably syphilis was sent to Europe from America in exchange. To me and I suspect a number of others, a pandemic is any illness which is deadly and is spreading widely, and often through unidentified means. For a number of years the specific cause of AIDS was unknown, or it was not possible to determine if one was infected/contagious. Thus it was spread to many innocent parties like wives or occasionally husbands, hemophiliacs, and surgery patients.
Many of those illnesses originally came out of China. Well, Central Asia.
To me and I suspect a number of others, a pandemic is any illness which is deadly and is spreading widely, and often through unidentified means.
Fair enough.
. For a number of years the specific cause of AIDS was unknown, or it was not possible to determine if one was infected/contagious.
Um-mm... yeah... going to have to disagree with you there. AIDS was known to be an STD. There was noting mysterious about it. It was even known as GRID, gay-related immunodeficiency.