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Term: epidemic
Definition:

In epidemiology, an epidemic is a classification of a disease that appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is expected based on recent experience (the number of new cases in the population during a specified period of time is called the incidence rate).

Created 2023.04.16
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