the period of increased risk following the exposure.

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A general term for measures of association calculated from the data in a two-by-two table, including risk ratio, rate ratio, and odds ratio

A previously defined (known) disease that crosses political boundaries to occur in a country or region in which it is not currently recorded as present.

factors that either cause a health person to become sick or cause a sick person to recover

An instance of a disease or a genetically determined condition that is discovered first and leads to the discovery of others in a family or population

Import (see import), and the placing of goods under the customs procedures referred to in points (b) to (f) of Article 4(16) of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92, as well as their...

vector-borne zoonotic disease, spread by sand flies, can be found in humans and carnivores

The number of new cases of a disease that occur in a population in a particular geographical area within a given period of time.

The first case or instance of a patient coming to the attention of health authorities.

rate (usually daily) at which a bloodsucking insect population generates new inoculations from a currently infectious case.

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Epidemic occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population.

Nonliving chemical and physical factors in the environment

Synonym for visceral leishmaniasis (see: leishmaniasis)

A number of animals of one kind kept together under human control or a congregation of gregarious wild animals.

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A food-borne disease or food-borne illness is defined as a disease, usually either infectious or toxic in nature, caused by agents that enter the body through the ingestion of...