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What makes a pandemic influenza occur is the emergence of a new flu virus that people have little or no immunity to that spreads easily from person-to-person.

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  1. intransitive verb To take place; come about. See Synonyms at happen.
  2. intransitive verb To be found to exist or appear: Copper deposits occur in the region.
  3. intransitive verb To come to mind: The idea never occurred to me.

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  1. Latin occurrere : ob-, toward; see ob- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Old French occurrer, occurrir = Spanish ocurrir = Portuguese occorrer = Italian occorrere, from Latin occurrere, run, go or come up to, meet, go against, from ob, before, + currere, run: see current. Cf. decur, incur, recur.
 

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