I recently came across a reference to "an epidemic of pandemic flu."
Pandemic flu looks like
avian flu and
Spanish flu, but it refers to the prevalence of the disease, not the type of the disease. There could be an epidemic of flu, and if it spread far enough it would be a pandemic of flu.
Webster's New World on
pandemic:
adj.
over a whole area, country, etc.; universal; general; specif., epidemic over a large region: said of a disease
n.
a pandemic disease
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