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Disease Outbreaks

"Disease Outbreaks" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Disease Outbreaks" by people in this website by year, and whether "Disease Outbreaks" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 142 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2012 and 2015 and 2016
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