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is a place containing whatever epidemiological factors are needed for transmission of an infection. Any focus of infection will have a source of infection, and other common traits of such a place include a human community, a vector population, and environmental characteristics adequate for spreading
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or school. This happens when groups of children meet in a childcare environment, and there any individual with an infectious disease may spread it to the entire group. Commonly spread diseases include
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and enteric illnesses, such as diarrhea among babies using diapers. It is uncertain how these diseases spread, but
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reduces some risk of transmission and increasing hygiene in other ways also reduces risk of infection.
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many men who used bathhouses for sex developed AIDS as a consequence of their having sex without using
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For the theory of local infections causing other diseases in the body, see
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discovered that people who drank from a particular water pump contracted
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Index

focal infection theory

Broadwick Street
1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
John Snow
cholera
germ theory of disease
miasma theory
gay bathhouse
men who have sex with men
HIV/AIDS
safe sex
prevention of HIV/AIDS
Childcare infection
childcare
daycare
influenza-like illness
hand washing
Porta, M
A dictionary of epidemiology
ISBN
978-0-19-997672-0



Johnson, Steven
The ghost map : the story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world
ISBN
1594489254

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