PANDEMIC
Charles François (2004). PANDEMIC, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 2461.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2461 ▶ |
| Object type | Discipline oriented, General information, Human sciences |
A worldwide epidemic process . This kind of processes is unfrequent, even at a historical scale, and luckily so because they are frightfully destructive. Historical examples are the “Black death”plague (1347-52), the rinderpest in East Africa (in the 1890's) and the so-called “spanish influenza”(1918-19)
Some religious conflicts (in Europe during the 17th century, or ideological propagation processes (fascism and communism in the 20th century) seem also to have been of pandemic extension.