The branch of medicine that study factors affecting health and diseases in a large populations.
Deal with incidence and prevalence of disease in large populations with detection of cause and prevention of diseases.
Most cases involves influenza virus which has high reproductive and survival rate which mutates independently to form new virus.
Example :: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
:: H1N1 -
:: Nipah Virus
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