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Epidemiology Terms: A Glossary of Epidemiological Words

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Specifically, prevalence data was used by global health experts and epidemiologists to track the overall number of cases and understand how the disease was spreading. In 2015, the global infant mortality rate was 31 deaths per 1,000 live births. This is near twice the rate in Canada (3.0) and Japan (2.1).