Or in 2002 or 2011 about coronaviruses or in 2015 about ebola or in 2009 about swine flu or or or...
You don't get credit for predicting 10 of the last 1 pandemics.
Ebola and H1N1 were both epidemics. The former wasn't a pandemic and the latter didn't kill that many people in hindsight, but they were most definitely epidemic in large communities.
With the disclaimer that I'm not an expert: Also, ebola didn't just fizzle out of its own accord, its spread was halted by a concerted, and brave, effort. Medics died fighting that epidemic. I suspect it could have been orders of magnitude more lethal had it been handled less effectively.