Extra/Important Flashcards

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Q

The impact of an infectious disease to a society depends on many things. Two particularly important features are how deadly and contagious the disease is. Compare these features.

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The average number of people that an infected person can pass a disease to can determine the extent of how contagious the disease is whereas the deadliness of a disease is determined by how many of the infected patients died from the disease.

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