The phrase "a devastating pandemic of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact or severity of a pandemic, particularly in a formal or informative context.
Example: "The world faced a devastating pandemic of unprecedented scale, affecting millions of lives."
Alternatives: "a catastrophic outbreak of" or "a severe epidemic of".
Although this provides some comfort for now, a variety of ecologic and health factors could affect the emergence of a devastating pandemic strain.
Carlyle, R. C. What are the chances of a devastating pandemic occurring in the next 50 years?
The bioterrorism expert responsible for censoring scientific research which could lead to the creation of a devastating pandemic has admitted the information "is going to get out" eventually.
When health officials realized in April 2009 that an unusual number of people in Mexico were being hospitalized and dying from a novel strain of the influenza virus, global health experts girded for the worst: the possibility of a devastating pandemic like the 1918 one that killed up to 100 million people.
Fanta Kondeh and Senesie Conteh's Strengthening Ebola Surveillance, Prevention, and Response program is ensuring that communities in Sierra Leone's Kenema District remain Ebola free in the face of a devastating pandemic.
The Poor Law Act of 1388 was an attempt to address the labour shortage caused by the Black Death, a devastating pandemic that killed about one-third of England's population.
When an emerging influenza virus appears in humans, an early concern is whether the virus has the potential to cause a devastating pandemic, i.e., the global spread of an infection killing a substantial number of people.
Highly transmissible, highly adaptable (it mutates quickly) and highly lethal, it stands as a model for scientists of the kind of virus that might cause a devastating pandemic in the future.
There are a few facets of modern society that make a devastating pandemic not only possible, but likely.
By Feb. 13, the Center for Disease Control had determined that the dead recruit — and three other cases that had baffled New Jersey authorities suffered from "swine flu," a descendant of the infamous "Spanish influenza" that caused a devastating pandemic in humans in 1918‐19.
