Is the H1N1 illness considered a pandemic or an epidemic? What is the different between the two?

I believe it is still in the epidemic stage. Epidemic means anything that spreads large and fast in one particular geographic location i.e. north america. A Pandemic comes from Pangea which was supposedly made up from all of the land mes on the planet that were all connected way way back when (supposedly) a pandemic is therefore planet wide epidemic affecting basically any area inhabited by human beings.