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Emerging Infectious Disease
A disease either new to humans or has increased in prevalence in the past twenty years, denoting the need to control its impact. They can impact all countries, but must be more carefully and thoroughly monitored in developing countries due to more vulnerable infrastructures. They may also experience prevalence increase gradually or suddenly, the latter of which was true with the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015.
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