epidemic threshold

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English

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Etymology

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From epidemic + threshold.

Noun

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epidemic threshold (countable and uncountable, plural epidemic thresholds)

  1. (epidemiology) a predefined threshold for the number of cases of a contagious disease above which the disease is considered to be at epidemic levels.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ “Common Vocabulary Used to Understand Dengue Surveillance”, in Centers for disease control and prevention[1], U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2022 June 15 (last accessed)
  2. ^ “Definitions: emergencies”, in Humanitarian Health Action[2], World Health Organization, 2020, archived from the original on 18 February 2020