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dejastew

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How do health officials decide whether to declare an outbreak, epidemic, or a pandemic?

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Continuing to eat even when you are no longer hungry is a sign of ___________________ _ overeating.
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Public health officials differentiate between an outbreak, an epidemic, and a pandemic as follows:
 An outbreak is a sudden rise in the incidence of a disease.
 An epidemic affects an atypically large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time.
 A pandemic occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population. Influenza pandemics tend to occur when disease-causing organisms that typically affect only animals adapt and infect humans, then further adapt so they can pass easily from human to human. The flu pandemic of 19181919 claimed half a million lives.

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