A contagious disease which spreads over a huge area or a community

A contagious disease which spreads over a huge area or a community is called?

A. Pandemic
B. Endemic
C. Epidemic
D. Sporadic

Answer: Epidemic

Epidemic – A disease that affects a large number of people within a community, population, or region. Epidemic refers to an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population in that area.

Pandemic – A disease prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world. Pandemic is the term used to describe an epidemic when the spread is global.

Endemic – A disease that is present permanently in a region or population. Endemic refers to the constant presence and/or usual prevalence of a disease or infectious agent in a population within a geographic area.

Sporadic – A disease that occurs infrequently and irregularly. Diseases that are seen only occasionally, and usually without geographic concentration, are called sporadic diseases. Examples of sporadic diseases include tetanus, rabies, and plague.