epidemic threshold

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From epidemic + threshold.

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

  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
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