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Mortality rate |
Number of deaths due to a disease over time |
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Morbidity rate |
number of people in a population afflicted with a disease |
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incident |
Number of new cases of a disease occuring during a specific period of time |
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Prevalence |
The total cumulative number of cases of a disease in a certain area and period of time |
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Sporadic |
Disease which exhibits new cases at irregular intervals in unpredictable geographic regions |
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Endemic |
Sudden, simultaneous outbreak of a disease in a community |
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Propagating epidemic |
Small number of people sick. disease then being passed on to increasingly large numbers |
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Common source outbreak |
Sharp rise and decline of cases |
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Pandemic |
A disease that has spread over large geographic barriers to a significant popultion |
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Communicable disease |
Infection capable of being transmitted from one individual to another |
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STORCH |
Syphilis Toxoplasmosis Other (Hep, HIC, Chlam) Rubella Cytomegalovirus Herpes simplex virus |
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Resevoir |
Primary habitat for a pathogen |
