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How to Measure the Spread of Infectious Diseases?

Epidemiologists measure the spread of infectious diseases using metrics such as incidence rate and prevalence rate. The incidence rate refers to the number of new cases in a specific time period, while the prevalence rate refers to the total number of cases at a particular point in time. Other important metrics include the basic reproduction number (R0), which indicates the average number of secondary infections produced by a single infected individual.

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