"pandemic potential" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the possibility of a pandemic resulting from a particular situation. For example, "The novel coronavirus has stoked fears of a global pandemic due to its pandemic potential."
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has described it as having potentially "explosive pandemic potential" and the authority has declared a global public health emergency on 1 February.
And in February Chinese scientists said newly-discovered H10N8 had "pandemic potential".
The experience of the 2003 Sars outbreak taught us very clearly that, for airborne viruses with pandemic potential, prevention is always far better than cure.
Aside from the virus's recent horrible track record, several other things about it can help explain why some scientists worry that it has pandemic potential.
In 1997, he abruptly turned to bird flu, both because he was fascinated by its molecular structure and because he quickly grasped its pandemic potential.
That information, the researchers say, could help them recognize viruses on the way to developing pandemic potential.
In the years that followed, as the World Health Organization rallied the world to prepare for Avian Flu — the virus that was thought to have the greatest pandemic potential — airlines too finalized their plans in cooperation with the experts.
The emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses has raised concerns about their pandemic potential.
Influenza virus is a global health concern due to its unpredictable pandemic potential.
Recently, a novel avian-origin H7N9 influenza A virus with unknown pandemic potential emerged in humans.
Diagnostic assays are required to detect novel influenza strains with pandemic potential.
