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Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Disease Outbreaks
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Disease Outbreaks
Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Disease Outbreaks

Preferred term

Disease Outbreaks  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Disease Outbreak, Infectious
  • Disease Outbreaks, Infectious
  • Infectious Disease Outbreak
  • Infectious Disease Outbreaks
  • Outbreak, Infectious Disease
  • Outbreaks
  • Outbreaks, Infectious Disease

Note

  • coordinate IM with specific disease / epidemiol (IM) & specify geographic location if pertinent; differentiate from EPIDEMICS, follow terminology in text

Scope note

  • Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease. The concept includes EPIDEMICS and PANDEMICS.

History note

  • 68(66)

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004196

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