The coronavirus is officially a pandemic. Here's what that means, and 8 other outbreaks that got the designation -- or should have.

Jason Redmond/Reuters The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on Wednesday. The last time the WHO declared a pandemic was in 2009 when H1N1 flu swept the globe. Here are all the pandemics have come before this one. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Ten weeks after the first reported case of the new coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a pandemic. The last time it used the designation was in 2009, whe...