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    Sporadic Communicable Disease

    A single case of a communicable disease long absent from a population, or caused by an agent (e.g. bacterium or virus) not previously recognized in that community or area, or...
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    Incidence Rate

    A measure of the frequency with which an event, such as a new case of illness, occurs in a population over a period of time. The denominator is the population at risk; the...
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    Mechanical Vector

    a vector in which an agent does not undergo any development or multiplication (not biological)
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    Surveillance (General)

    Surveillance that is not focused on specific hazards and uses general tests (e.g. clinical examination or gross pathology). Syndromic surveillance is a form of general...
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    Incidence Rate

    The number of new cases per population at risk in a given time period.
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    Disable

    To deprive of capability or effectiveness, especially to impair the physical abilities of.
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    Indistinguishable Causative Agent

    Causative agent that has been characterised to the level (of speciation/sub-typing (e.g. sero-/phage-/ribotyping), or molecular typing) needed to link the human cases to each...
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  • GlossaryTerm

    Risk Mitigation

    See "risk reduction"
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    Death Rate

    See "mortality rate"
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    Incidence

    Incidence is the number of new cases that occur in a known population over a specified period of time.
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    Trend

    See "compliance with target"
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    Mortality

    The proportion of deaths in a specified portion of a population or the proportion of deaths in a group of individuals.
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    Arthropod

    As used in this report, refers to insects and ticks, many of which are medically important as vectors of infectious diseases.
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    Exposure Assessment

    The qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation of the likely intake of biological, chemical, and physical agents via food as well as exposures from other sources if relevant.
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    Vehicle Of Infection Transmission

    The mode of transmission of an infectious agent from its reservoir to a susceptible host. This can be person-to-person, via food, vector-borne, etc
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    Serotype

    The phenotypic serological profile of an organism, typically the somatic and flagella antigens.
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    Detection In Food Chain Or Its Environment

    Laboratory detection in the food chain or its environment is defined as the detection of the potentialcausative agents in previous stages along the chain of production of the...
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    Disinfection

    The reduction, by means of chemical agents and/or physical methods, of the number of micro-organisms in the environment, to a level that does not compromise food safety or...
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    Semi-quantitative

    Yielding an approximation of the quantity or amount of a substance.
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    Arbovirus

    Arthropod-borne Virus, a virus transmitted by an arthropod vector
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