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    Foodborne Zoonoses

    Food-borne zoonotic diseases are caused by consuming food or drinking water contaminated by pathogenic (disease-causing) micro-organisms such as bacteria and their toxins,...
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    Antibiotic Resistance

    Property of bacteria that confers the capacity to inactivate or exclude antibiotics or a mechanism that blocks the inhibitory or killing effects of antibiotics.
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    Point Source Outbreak

    Common source outbreaks where the source has infected cases at one particular geographical location, during a short period of time, are called 'point source outbreaks'. In such...
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    Risk Analysis

    A process consisting of three interconnected components: risk assessment, risk management and risk communication
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    Vulnerable Consumers

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    Species Barrier

    Difficulty or impossibility for an infectious agent to pass from one species to another (due to differences between species).
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    Risk Communication

    Is the interactive transmission and exchange of information and opinions throughout the risk analysis process concerning risk, risk-related factors and risk perceptions among...
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    Pattern of disease occurrence: New also: emerging

    A previously undefined (unknown) disease or condition, which might result from the evolution or change in an existing pathogen or parasite resulting in a change of strain, host...
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    (surveillance) data harmonization

    In the context of epidemiology: Making data from different sources comparable. The processes involved in producing inferentially equivalent data.
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    case fatality

    Case fatality is the concept used to express the proportion of cases of a certain disease that actually dies due to the consequences of that disease.
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    case fatality

    Case fatality is the concept used to express the proportion of cases of a certain disease that actually dies due to the consequences of that disease.
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    (surveillance) data harmonization

    __In the context of epidemiology: Making data from different sources comparable. The processes involved in producing inferentially equivalent data.test
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    (surveillance) data harmonization

    In the context of epidemiology: Making data from different sources comparable. The processes involved in producing inferentially equivalent data. Related Terms:data integration
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    death rate

    See "mortality rate"