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What is an epidemic?

Posted on October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 By canprep
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Any disease will be present at a normal “background” level within a population. Epidemics occur when the number of cases of a particular infectious disease in that population or region is greater than what would usually be expected in a given time frame. Cases may be expressed, for example, in terms of the number of infections per 100,000 of the population (allowing comparisons to be made between different countries or time periods).

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