Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is caused by the RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae. The common cold, on the other hand, can be caused by over 200 different viruses. The most common virus blamed...

An epidemic is where there are numerous breakouts of a single disease. A pandemic, on the other hand, is when the disease starts to spread on a larger scale than an epidemic. A pandemic is essentially a bigger...

Measles is a respiratory disease that is caused by Paramyxovirus virus from the Morbillivirus genus. Chickenpox is one of the most common diseases that children acquire and is caused by the varicella zoster...